BUFFALOg Reincarnates as America's North Coast

Having lived, worked, owned property, and paid excessive taxes to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, I can appreciate Craig Howard's fondness for America's North Coast. Not that I'll ever move back there: the desert Southwest is hard to beat, and the connotations of 'desert' to a philosopher of my type are too rich to give up. It is hard to be a vox clamantis in deserto stuck in traffic in a snowstorm. (For the geographically challenged, the North Coast reference is to Lake Erie. Snowstorms are exacerbated by the 'Lake effect' which is worse in Buffalo.)



Dominated as it is by liberals, Cleveland Heights, though a beautiful, old, and architecturally rich place to live, extracts from its residents not only an outrageously high property tax, but also a city income tax. Moving to Arizona slashed my property taxes, eliminated the city income tax, lowered the state income tax and reduced my energy costs.



Can we hazard a generalization: the more liberals the higher the taxes?