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Originally Posted by TiltonBB
Not exactly. The major taxpayers in most of the waterfront towns are non-residents and therefore not voters. The people who vote for some of these things like school budgets are voting to spend their money as well as the money of people who have no say in the matter and in many cases do not use the resources.
As far as having the state pay for it: Yes it spreads the expense out over a larger pool of taxpayers but it is still money that needs to be raised from the tax levy.
Sorry, there is no free lunch!
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Agreed there is no free lunch here, but ideally this area would have better served by being state managed.
Yes that is true the voters locally are spending other people's money but they are motivated by what affect any new spending will have on their own tax bill as well - I don't think they necessarily care about the non voting tax payers. That said not every vote is about that, but it certainly is a factor to many.