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		gaius on June 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Urban trees reveal income inequality Where do benefits come from? The taxpayer. Taxing them is just shuffling money between two govt budgets.

domwood on June 4, 2012 [–]

Indeed. So there's no small degree of irony in taxing people on their tax funded benefits.

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