ajtj99's Market Pulse

[rich ruscio]

OT: I think the appropriate measure for this subject is total taxes paid per person.

That way, we avoid all the bu77$hit about rates, forms of taxation, guilty taxing party ... Two quick stories:

My county / town / village tax bill is in hand and due soon. It very clearly breaks out "what New York State mandates" we tax you for, and what "controllable" expenses we tax you for. I do get to pay the whole thing with my money.

There are mandates in NYS for counties to pay, somehow, for Medicaid. Since the County Exec would not raise the tax rate to cover the looming shortfall, she abrogated an agreement with the local school systems to share sales tax revenue with them. The pleas of fairness and unfairness are falling on my deaf ears. I get to pay the freight anyhow.

Fark them all ...

rr