
<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Your statement(s) seem to indicate that the state does not have intentions in this regard. Property tax is how you force growth. Each home added to a town costs the town money, which increases the property tax (among other things) which forces people with larger amounts of property to sell off parcels; which people build more houses on. Which increases town revenue, lather:rinse:repeat.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This is pretty constant, and intentional.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>]3</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:44 AM, spike wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>But</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">property taxes in most yank states lack such controls: if</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">they raise them too much, people must sell their</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">property. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>