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andy@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) writes:
=In article <2A65420D.10888@ics.uci.edu> mludwig@ics.uci.edu (Michael Scott Ludwig) writes:
=>=BTW - If you're going to point to EPA and Los Gatos and talk about how
=>=we can't have local only taxes because EPA can't support itself, I'll
=>=point out that under the current system, no one else does either.
=>
=>You went over my head on this one - I didn't see a single article that
=>mentioned either the EPA or Los Gatos (the EPA shouldn't be in this
=>discussion anyway, since it is funded by the national gov't, not the state).
=
=East Palo Alto was very much part of the discussion, as in "EPA needs
=subsidies from other areas because it can't pay for necessary
=services".  It should be part of the discussion, because it
=demonstrates that the status quo doesn't have the properties
=attributed to it, the properties that argue against its replacement.

Oh, I see. You were using EPA to mean East Palo Alto.  I had never seen that
city referred to as "EPA", despite having lived about 10 miles away from it
for 11 years.  That's why I was wondering how the Environmental Protection
Agency had gotten into the discussion, even though it really hadn't.


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