carpdiem
join:2001-02-11
Cedarburg, WI
| reply to cmscholloway
Re: What's wrong?
I work for SBC. We have to pay for use of right of a way in cities. Not sure how it is in Texas but where I live the state is in the process of providing more city tax relief by moving state tax revenues to the counties and municipalities. Just my humble opinion here and I may be way off, but wouldn't it be more economical to establish a tax base by bringing in businesses to a community either in a downtown district or through a business park? I would think this would provide a greater relief for the residential property tax payers. Typically our public right of way structure is in place for our cables. The cities will be paid for public easements through the FTTN/FTTP initiative in cases where the existing easement isn't large enough to handle the new cabinets. Instead of a small fee per subscriber the city would be getting a larger upfront fee that they will have to learn to either budget or invest in bringing in additional businesses for a larger tax base. From a consumer and tax payers perspective...everyone's going to get a piece of my money somehow and at some point. |
