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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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