FSF looking for Sys Admin

Ken D'Ambrosio kend at xanoptix.com
Thu Dec 16 09:41:00 EST 2004


>If you want to see taxes, move to NY.  My brother lives in a house valued
>about 1/2 of mine, pays three times the property taxes I do plus a
>separate school tax.  Then there's the 8.25% sales tax and the income tax.
>
>And that's upstate NY.  It's worse in NYC.  
>  
>
Actually, I believe the state tax is 7%; it's only 8.25% in NYC.  The 
part that REALLY sucks about NYC, though -- and some other states/cities 
do this, too -- is this: if you're married, work in NYC, and live in 
(say) New Jersey, and your spouse neither lives nor works in NYC... NYC 
can still tax your spouse's income!!!  This went all the way to the 
Supreme Court, where it was (to my astonishment) upheld; I would have 
considered it taxation w/o representation.

On a more Linux-y angle, has anyone tried out Trac 
(http://trac.edgewall.com/ 
<http://freshmeat.net/redir/trac/48128/url_homepage/trac.edgewall.com>), 
a sort of ticket tracker/front end for Subversion.  I'm interested in 
possibly giving it a go, but between Subversion, which I've never set 
up, and Trac on top of it, it'll be a bit of an investment, and was 
hoping someone had some input.

Thanks!

-Ken

>Taxachusetts indeed.
>
>-Mark
>  
>




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