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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: Casion--Vote (really chicago and $$)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.160025.24323@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: Lachman Technology, Incorporated, Naperville, IL
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:00:25 GMT
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- In article <930124948@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- ...
- >see above. Where'd you get this percentage claim anyhow, pull it out of
- >a hat? Show me where these statistics come from, and maybe I'd believe it.
- ...
- >let's not forget business. I'd say that in like a 25 mile radius around
- >the city, over 1/2 the tax is generated by sales/business in the city.
- >There is just more selling and business going on in the city than in
- >the burbs, so there is more tax revenue. Now who has to provide the
-
- Where'd you get this percentage claim anyhow, pull it out of a hat? ...
-
- >plowing and crap like I mentioned before so the stock broker can
- >get to work downtown? Yep. The city. If Chicago could get the same
-
- If the downtown businesses indeed generate half the revenue in the
- Chicago metropolitan area (which incidentally is much larger than a 25 mile
- radius), then I guess the stock broker is paying for the snow plowing...
-
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