The mayor of Providence wants to slap a $150-per-semester tax on the 25,000 full-time students at Brown University and three other private colleges in the city, saying they use resources and should help ease the burden on struggling taxpayers.Undoubtedly, enforcing the underage drinking code and the noise ordnance uses resources. Paging A. C. Pigou, and all the advocates of helmet laws and smoking bans. On the other hand, it might be fun to see the establishment at oh-so-transgressive Brown discovering the wisdom of "No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unlefs in Proportion to the Cenfus or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken."
(Via SCSU Scholars.)
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