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Tax Issues:

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

To learn more about Santee Taxpayers Association projects, please visit:

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"

YES on Prop X!

If you are not already a member of the Santee Taxpayers Association, please join us in the ongoing effort to promote efficient cost-effective government.

Email SanteeTaxpayersAssociation@cox.net

G. Thomas Walters, Chair

*Santee Town Center*

Where are You on the Growth Spectrum?

How much higher do you want your taxes to go?

a) For what I'm getting, I think I'm paying enough already.

b) I'm happy to pay more even if I can't see any benefits.

A fun quiz introduction to "Better Not Bigger."

*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

Discovering the Real Costs of Growth

"Most of us who have been exposed to rapid urban growth can testify to its negative impacts on our lives and our surroundings - lost open space and environmental quality, over crowded schools, traffic congestion, noise, rising crime rates, higher cost of living, and so on. Few of these costs have ever been quantified in a useful way. Even the straightforward economic costs associated with growth, such as providing new or expanded public facilities, are relatively unknown. While the benefits of growth are widely proclaimed, information about growth related costs is surprisingly scarce. This lack of knowledge is of particular concern given the magnitude of public investments necessary to accommodate growth."
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