[geeks] Taxes

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
> " It might even encourage 
> " people to move out of the cities, and frankly, that'd be a good thing 
> " for many reasons.  Sprawling megacities are horribly inefficient and do 
> " huge environmental damage.  Decentralization makes much better economic, 
> " ecological and social sense.
> 
> ...except for the spiraling cost of gas...

Do you burn more fuel crawling to your workplace through near-gridlocked 
city traffic, or driving 50% further on less-loaded and relatively 
free-flowing roads?

> i live near the edge of my little urban area, and i love being able to
> cover all of it -on-foot-.  couldn't do that in the country.

Probably not if you lived in an isolated house ten miles from the 
nearest grocery store, no.  But what if you lived in a sensibly-laid-out 
smallish town out in the country with a scattering of neighborhood 
supermarkets, a bigger shopping center "downtown" along with the town 
hall and some entertainment/cultural facilities, a couple of small 
light-industrial parks around the periphery, a good network of bicycle 
paths and a light-rail system?  OK, so maybe you'd need to drive into 
the nearest major city if you needed to buy something out of the 
ordinary or go see Rush (or the Moscow Ballet) on tour.  But how often 
do you really do that?


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