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So what happens? The local government, either town or county, is forced to step in, and everybody—old residents and new residents alike—have to pick up the tab, in the form of increased taxes.
SOME development advocates still maintain that “development pays for itself,” that all new construction actually provides tax benefits which outbalance the additional burdens that are created. If that were so, then why isn’t the tax rate so low that no one could notice it in Northern Virginia, or in Prince William? Why isn’t a city like New York solvent? Why aren’t the areas which have experienced the greatest growth and “progress” the ones with the least number of financial problems?
The answers, to our way of thinking, are obvious. If the lesson of our neighbors isn’t heeded, it will become even more painfully obvious—in the form of constantly rising local tax rates. □
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