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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

This also confirms what several people told me years ago: that Durham, of
all places, has the highest tax burden in the Triangle. According to those
statistics Durham's is higher than Cary's, Raleigh's and Chapel Hill's.

- Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:internetworkers-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Michael Winslow Czeiszperger
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 12:40 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [internetworkers] CH Taxes lower than Cary and Raleigh
> 
> 
> An interesting study from the John Locke foundation was featured in  
> today's CH News which refutes the local common wisdom that 
> taxes in CH  
> and Carrboro are higher than in surrounding areas. The foundation  
> separated NC cities into two groups, those over 25,000 and those  
> between 5,000 and 25,000.
> 
> For each city the studied the total tax burden levied, 
> including taxes,  
> fees, licenses, etc. Surprising enough the tax burden placed on its  
> citizens by such cities as Raleigh and Cary were higher than 
> supposedly  
> tax heavy Chapel Hill. The large city rankings were:
> 
> Upper Quartile (out of 24)
> 1. Carlotte
> 2. Hickory
> 3. Durham
> 4. Wilmington
> 5. Cary
> 6. High Point
> 
> 2nd & 3rd Quartile
> ----
> 7. Greensboro
> 8. Asheville
> 9. Raleigh
> 10. Chapel Hill
> 11. Winston Salem
> 
> The rankings in the 5,000 to 25,000 category were also interesting,  
> with local communities Morrisville and Holly Springs ranking 2nd and  
> 7th out of 86. Other close cities such as Fuquay-Varina, Wake 
> Forest,  
> Garner, Clayton, and Apex were in the upper quartile. By 
> comparison the  
> local taxes levied by the "socialist" community of Carrboro 
> were rated  
> as average.
> 
> The actual taxes per capita differed quite a bit, with taxes 
> in Holly  
> Springs, for example, being 1.7 times the per capita tax burden of  
> Carrboro.
> 
> The ratios in the large cities were much closer together, 
> with taxes in  
> Cary being only 1.04 those of Chapel Hill.
> 
> The full report is at  
> http://www.johnlocke.org/policy_reports/2003010727.html. 
> Local coverage  
> can be found at:
> 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/ 
2086216p-1993510c.html
___________________________________________________________________
No place better demonstrates the worst aspects of both the American
character and public policy than the nation's highways.
         -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC

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