> When you’re not the payer/customer, YOU. DONT. MATTER. This is why I prefer local governments to be indexed to sales taxes, property taxes & income taxes. It

> When you’re not the payer/customer, YOU. DONT. MATTER. This is why I prefer local governments to be indexed to sales taxes, property taxes & income taxes. It encourages them to create economic activity. I dislike it when local governments rely almost entirely on funding from central government. There's little incentive to create economic activity because it often creates more work in building infrastructure & social services. And less political incentive to improve public services, because you can always blame central government for a lack of funding.