On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:44:10 -0700 (PDT), Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net>
> When taxes are collected from incomes and consumptions and then spent in
> ways that generate untaxed gains in location rents, then yes, that is a
> burden.
> [WS:] No, it would be misuse of public funds. Taxes are public funds
> that provide public goods.
Public goods create location rents. Thus perfectly good public works transfer money to landowners from everybody else.
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