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Yeah, the "infrastructure creates the wealth" bit.
TB — (archived)

Not the first time I've heard that one.

Oddly, if you build roads, power lines, water supplies, and other services into a vacant lot, you can wait a long time for a factory to sprout there.

Hmmm. Seems to be something else missing from the equation.

You see, it's a little problem of chronology. If you look at history, the businesses and economic centers come first, driving the construction of the infrastructure and services that gather around them.

And who's the "rest of us" supposedly paying for all this stuff?

You think Joe Sixpack's property and income taxes are what's picking up most of the load for the police, fire departments, and all the rest?

And of course the usual litany of services these people list to justify high Federal income taxes are, inconveniently, funded almost exclusively by state and local taxes.

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