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7-a - Report on the Orange County Tax Equity Study
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<br />CCM Economics, LLC Orange County Tax Equity Page 39 <br /> <br />Table 8. Public Usage Survey Results By Municipality—Maximum Possible Usage <br /> Orange County Carrboro Chapel Hill Hillsborough Mebane Unincorp <br />Parks 100 100 100 100 100 100 <br />Library 100 100 100 100 100 100 <br />Transportation 11.95 23.8 8.69 17.7 16.6 6.3 <br />Recycling 87 85.4 85.9 85.4 91.7 94.2 <br />Senior Center 34.87 33 38 40 0 34.14 <br />Health 16.7 4.76 9.7 19.35 50 16.58 <br />WiFi 63.6 69 51.1 60.5 49.9 68.4 <br /> <br />V. Conclusions <br /> The problem of equity vis-à-vis government provided goods, services, and tax burdens is <br />an issue of growing interest to taxpayers, government leaders and administrators, and other <br />stakeholders. All sides want to ensure that taxation, and the government provided benefits that <br />taxation brings about, are distributed as equitably as possible. Unfortunately, there is not an <br />objective definition of what ‘equity’ actually is and therefore the topic of equity is normative in <br />nature. Nevertheless, this report has suggested two possible definitions—equity on the basis of <br />ability to pay and equity on the basis of usage. The first definition means that those households <br />that have higher levels of income/wealth should generally pay a larger share of taxes and receive <br />smaller shares of benefits than less affluent households. Of course, the exact ratio of these <br />taxation and benefits shares is once again a normative issue. <br />The second definition means that, generally speaking, households should pay taxes to <br />fund the government provided goods and services that are available to them and that they not pay <br />taxes to fund government provided services that are not provided to them. This second definition <br />of equity can be tricky to accurately calculate though as the example of public education shows. <br />Even though a household might never have any children in the public school system that does <br />not mean that they don’t receive any benefits from the provision of public education. The doctor <br />that operates on them, the engineer who builds the roads that they drive on, and the park ranger <br />76
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