From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com> To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net Subject: [WSFA] Re: West Virginia Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 18:10:34 -0500 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Let's try it one more time, and PLEASE READ THIS. IT WAS A RECOLLECTION OF WHAT I HEARD AS A 12-YEAR-OLD. It was talk. Period. Adults yammmering while kids are at talbe. With cousins. Turkey dinner. PICNICS IN WET TENTS.\ OK? ----Original Message Follows---- From: Kit Mason <kit at hers.com> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: West Virginia Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 18:06:45 -0500 Candy Madigan wrote: > > At 11:00 AM 04/04/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >The City also draws vast numbers of tourists who spend money and pay lots = > >of sales tax. Hotel tax: 15.25, general sales tax: 8.25% > > > >& try using the sidewalks in December. > > > >I sorta doubt the 92% figure. > > I don't. NY is a large state, but not very populous once you get outside > of NYC. Most of the taxes my in-laws pay go to support NYC. I also doubt the figure. Outside of education, much of the tax money that went to NYC at that time came in the form of federal funding for housing, infrastructure and other matters that was administered by state agencies and state programs. Administration of programs probably came out of the state pocket, but the money within the programs did not, overall. Kit -- kit at hers.com Kit's Concatenation: http://concatenation.blogspot.com/ A Twist of Wry -- http://www.mrks.org/~kit/index.html Kit's Works -- http://www.kitsworks.com/stories/index.htm _________________________________________________________________