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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (387923)	6/2/2008 2:51:35 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1579682

When you pay for schools with a property tax you don't call it a tax on the real estate business. ---------------------------------------------------- Well it kind of is. In the same way that an oil excise tax "kind of is" a tax on oil companies. But the reality is that the RE tax is a tax on homeowners and the oil excise tax is a tax on driving consumers. But the "kind of" thing allows libertarian think tanks to be misleading and imply that oil company taxes are much, much higher than they actually are.