| On the Road: Asthma, Gridlock and Dumb Policies |
The sales taxes now used by many local jurisdictions foist costs - in many cases the cost of transporting goods to people outside the region - onto taxpayers who derive absolutely nothing from them. Some of the costs are paid out of that sales tax; some in commute time; some in the swelling respiratory disease rates generated by the NOX and particulates from the trucks and dirty railroad diesels that move the stuff. Peter Schrag in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/19/04
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/9347126p-10271797c.html |
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| Date posted: 06-08-2004 |
| Posted by: PolicyLink |
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