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To: tejek who wrote (285165)	5/9/2006 6:21:06 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572208

CA has a very high tax revenue even adjusting for its size. Its revenue has gone up on a real per capita basis. At the same time CA's business tax climate is ranked 40th out of the 50 states by the Tax Foundation ( taxfoundation.org ) and its top state income tax rate is the highest in the country. taxfoundation.org One point I should consider is that since you are focusing on property taxes you might be looking at the revenue for local jurisdictions in CA. I don't really have data for them. The State of California brings in enormous amounts of revenue (again even taking in to consideration its size), but perhaps the local jurisdictions aren't so lucky. you believe any gov't has more than enough money to operate Not at all. and every corporation is lean and trim Not only do I not think that is true, I think its a very silly idea. "LA is rated as having a worse problem than DC but DC is number 3." forbes.com That's the only time I heard of DC being third. Here are some other examples: Some of your links don't provide any rankings. Some are about specific bottlenecks and not overall traffic problems for an area. Others are older data. DC has been climbing up the charts. The pdf you link to apparently counts overall hours lost to traffic delay. DC is a lot smaller then LA or NY or Chicago or San Francisco or Dallas. They city itself is maybe 1/15th as big as NY. Maybe its a bit close when you consider metro areas but the gap is still large, but the data show DC as losing almost 1/4th as many hours to extra travel time as New York, and losing over half what Chicago loses. Different rankings will have different results but the point is DC area traffic is very bad, among the nations worst (but not as bad as LA's) Tim