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- Path: sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
- Message-ID: <4181@mitech.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:40:08 GMT
- References: <BZS.92Dec15212827@world.std.com> <1992Dec17.153135.8027@dunsel.harvard.edu> <PSHUANG.92Dec21195828@ninja.mit.edu> <1992Dec22.154606.8643@m5.harvard.edu>
- Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
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- In article <1992Dec22.154606.8643@m5.harvard.edu>, borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden) writes:
- > If we
- > want to subsidize them, then it's just as well done through taxes - a dollar
- > spent on transportation is a dollar spent on transportation, regardless of
- > how it gets there,
-
- A dollar spent via state and/or local taxes actually costs MA people
- less than a dollar, because of the deductability of local taxes
- from gross income counted for federal taxation.
-
- -gjc
-