> raising taxes - has the side effect of encouraging those with mobility (citizens and businesses) to relocate elsewhere. This kind of argument always seems a

> raising taxes - has the side effect of encouraging those with mobility (citizens and businesses) to relocate elsewhere. This kind of argument always seems a little... short-sighted, to me. Sure, raising taxes has a chilling effect, but spending that money in the right-enough ways has an attractive effect. AFAIK, LA wants to / has raised taxes in order to put in far more parks (addressing "green deserts") and to address food deserts. This makes more neighborhoods more desirable, which then has an overall attractive effect. Looking at one part of a system and saying "well, this is bad because it doesn't achieve terminal values", well, look at the _entire_ system, and _then_ measure achievement of those values.