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- From: bobh@troy.cc.bellcore.com (hettmansperger,robert)
- Subject: Re: YYYEEEEESSSSSSS!!!
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 20:10:30 GMT
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- In article <1e7d74INNel2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bu008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brandon D. Ray) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, eastmer@yang.earlham.edu () says:
- >
- >>How about residential streets, are you going to put one of
- >>your great private sector toll booths at the end of every driveway before
- >>you get on one of your private sector roads. At what point would it be
- >>O.K. with you for a community to gather money throughout the population to
- >>finance something that is beneficial to everyone?(i.e. taxes)
- >>
- >Well, I *live* in a neighborhood with privately own roads. It is a mobile
- >home court, about one mile on a side. The roads are generally better
- >quality than the ones the city maintains only a few hundred feet away,
- >and there are sidewalks and streetlights. We have a very low crime rate.
- >No tollbooths; it is part of the monthly lot rent, which is $175/mo.
- >It is not hard to imagine such a system being extended to a neighborhood
- >of another type. In areas where the residents own the property their
- >homes sit on, the cost might be stipulated in the deed.
- >
-
- So let's see... If you rent, the costs for roads is taken from the rent.
- If you own, then the costs for roads is stipulated in the deed.
-
- Not only have you just created the illusion of taxation, but you have also
- completely removed your beloved concept of usage-based fees.
-
- Not only that, think what a pain it would be to run utilities throughout
- neighborhoods. Or do you believe that when a utility company wants to run
- a new gas line, sewer, phone line, etc. under a roadway, that they must
- make individual negotiations with each of the land owners of that road?
- What a nightmare...
-
- -Bob
-