Spoke with the Treasurer of my local county to confirm...
.GOV pays no taxes
They use our local roads, water, sewer, schools et al...
Most .GOV operates as a Buisness.
USCG here has barracks for their employees... The employees use our local roads, water, sewer, schools et al...
The National Park Service charges a fee to visit... That is a business for sure.
They occupy local land of extremely high value and pay zero for it... while the rest of us... Business or Private... are saddled with EVER INCREASING PROPERTY TAXES.
Those government employees do pay sales tax and gasoline taxes and would probably not be adding to the local economy if there wasn't a military post close buy. It's my understanding that Iowa with very little military presence pays $1 in federal taxes and gets 90 cents back. Folks like you probably get $1 for every $1 in taxes because you have a military post close by.
Now "non profit" hospitals. That's a real beef with me.
kwg
