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Does money really
grow on trees?
Certainly not for most folks—but for a couple of million people it seems to.
TBey are people who get their electricity from power plants owned by the federal government. They pay less for electric service than other people do, simply because you and everybody else pay part of their electric bills.
Here’s how that happens. First, part of your taxes goes to pay for the government power plants that serve these people with electricity. Second, the electric bills these people pay do not include many of the taxes you pay in your electric bills. So your share of taxes has to be increased in order to pay their share. For example, the federal government’s TV A pays 5% of power revenue from customers, excluding sales to agencies of the United States. This is in place of taxes to the states and counties in which it operates.* Your local electric company pays 23.7%—about five times as much.
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