[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:52:44 +0000, VAXman- wrote:

> You don't know too much about the proNJ.  Businesses are leaving there
> in droves due to the high cost of doing business in the proNJ.  In
> addition, people are moving out.  They've had it with the high cost of
> living in the proNJ.  My town there is an $11-million shortfall due to
> lost tax base and the town is looking to lay off many of those on the
> receiving end of those taxes (notice, I didn't say workers!).  I'm all
> for it as I can't see what they do to earn those wages.

There's a parallel here in Switzerland, where the income taxes vary from 
one town or rural area to the next.  The major property websites state 
what tax index the area has and include a tax calculator.  This isn't 
just property tax, but your income tax, so it's important.

Just down the road from me is a small town which is a high tax area. 
There aren't many businesses there and nobody who can afford to live 
elsewhere wants to pay those taxes.  The result is a downward spiral into 
the red.  A couple of years ago they were considering a merger with my 
town (the headquarters of a couple of multinationals, so substantially 
better off), but it got voted down.

Which raises another point.  The resident voters of both towns got a 
chance to vote on the merger.  Having experienced the way areas are 
reorganised in the UK where the residents got next to no say in the 
matter, I found this rather refreshing.

You might think that everyone in my town would have voted no, but it was 
a very close run thing.

-- 
Paul Sture