Bay Area as a City State

Re:Bay Area as a City State by russell on Sunday July 11, 2010 @05:30PM (#1506171)

You would love CA then, where the state seizes local taxes to pay state bills and the republicans rant on about lowering taxes. The cities are feeling the pinch and have to cut local services.

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Re:Bay Area as a City State by ant5 on Sunday July 11, 2010 @06:39PM (#1506298)

That's not at all what I said I wanted :)

I want trickle-up instead of trickle-down taxes, ie, the city controls the purse strings instead of the federal and state governments.

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Re:Bay Area as a City State by russell on Sunday July 11, 2010 @11:04PM (#1506656)

I know. I was being deliberately obtuse. Imperial China had what you were talking about and it was institutionalized corruption.

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