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    <author><![CDATA[julie noir]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Here are a few ideas:<br>
1. Memphians must stop reproducing.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[militian]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[were not getting what were paying for... simple as that. its harder to flush the political tuuurds now more than ever before... we sat back while they voted themselves raises, extended terms and retirement packages that are unnecessary.
        
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      <![CDATA[sounds like a troll to me merc.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[mad_merc]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Did you or did you not have a license? <br>
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It's funny, but I've lived in Memphis (with a few extended excursions here and there) my entire life and have managed to not ever have been arrested.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Oliver Misst]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Memphis stinks...it always has. You come to memphis to be arrested for nothing.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jeff]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Zip, I'd love to see that sheet, because most of my money goes to health insurance, child care, and mortgage. Taxes are about fifth or sixth on my list.
        
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      <![CDATA[Shea kind of grows on you after awhile. Nice piece.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ok for argument's sake, what is a fair form of taxation? I hate paying taxes as much as the next guy, but they are necessary, unless you don't want police, roads, schools, libraries, etc.
        
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      <![CDATA[I just decided to put together a little spreadsheet and see what I really pay in taxes. I tried to be conservative and not create some astronimical number.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[CHG]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Property taxes are an indirect form of theft. The failure to pay shows who the real owner is.  The state is playing god by claiming ownership of all lands.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Wintermute]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[A bit loquacious and rambling, East Memph.<br>
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The City of Memphis has no business taxing its residents to give money to a school system, regardless of the sins of the past in that regard. State law obligates county taxpayers in that regard, East Memph.<br>
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"Maintenance of Effort legislation" is simply teacher-union abuse of the public pocketbook that attempts to make public education somehow immune from recession.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[mad_merc]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Nice talking points, but city government is a prime example of waste. The fire department is outdated and still run like it's in the 1800's, the RDC, the multiple appointees and spurious departments (do we really need a department of cultural affairs?), and a school system that has almost double the budget of the rest of the city government.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jeff]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I moved to Desoto County. I pay city property and county property taxes, plus the Mississippi income tax, but my tax burden is about the same as it was living in Shelby County.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[bubbalex]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Well said. Fiscal responsibility isn't always a "sexy" topic, and it's more fun to talk about amusement parks, professional sports teams, walking trails, etc., but the reality is that businesses make their decisions while looking at the (financial) bottom line - if Memphis can't compete economically, then businesses don't care about Beale Street's charm.
        
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