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Tax Issues:

The Santee Taxpayers Association is committed to efficient cost-effective government and opposes unnecessary new taxes.

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United Taxpayers

Test Your Tax Knowledge about Growing Cities*

1. The bigger cities get the lower taxes are. T or F?

2. The faster cities grow, the lower local taxes are. Tor F?

3. Police protection costs(per capita) are less in big cities. T or F?

4. Crime rates are higher in big cities. T or F?

5. The more cities grow, the more people are unemployed. T or F?

6. Bigger cities tend to have lower costs of living and housing? T or F?

7. Growth creates costs, but new tax revenue more than offset the added expenses? T or F?

8. More business subsidies mean greater prosperity for local residents. T or F?

9. Environmental regulation is bad for the economy? T or F?

10. Developed land usually produces more net revenues for the city (tax revenues minus cost of public services) than undeveloped land? T or F?

Answers:1)F; 2)F; 3)F; 4)F; 5)T; 6)F; 7)F; 8)F; 9)F; 10)F

*Eben Fodor; "Better Not Bigger - How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community"

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G. Thomas Walters, Chair

*Discovering the Real Costs of Growth*

Growth-Related Costs*

Capital Costs for Public Facilities/Infrastructure

Sanitary Sewer System

Storm Drainage System

Transportation System

Water Service Facilities

Fire Protection Facilities

Police Facilities

School Facilities (K-12)

Park & Recreation Facilities

Open space

Library Facilities

Government Facilities

Electric Power Generation and Distribution

Natural Gas Distribution System

Solid Waste Disposal Facilities

Environmental Costs and Other Impacts

Decreased Air Quality

Decreased Water Quality

Increased Rates of Resource Consumption (water, energy, etc.)

Increased Noise

Lost Open Space and Resource Lands

Lost Visual and Other Natural Amenity Values

Lost Wildlife Habitat

Increased Regulation (loss of freedom)

Lost Mobility Due to Traffic Congestion (delays and increased commute time)

Higher Cost of Housing

Higher Cost of Living

Increased Crime

Lost Sense of Community

Costs to Future Generations

*Eben Fodor; "Better Not Bigger - How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community"

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*The Twelve Big Myths of Growth*
	"The issue of urban growth is permeated with stereotyping, platitudes, cliches, rhetoric, questionable assumptions, and outright myths." Read More