I think that is a bad thing. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
In reply to another comment of yours furthjer down, in France local authorities can't decide to raise new taxes ; they only decide the rate of state-defined taxes. All taxes are collected by the Direction générale des impôts, and then redistributed to local authorities.
Ho, and I never left, spent much time lurking. I just don't comment often :) Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
Regarding the tax collecting/distributing system, then it seems it is not much different from what we have here. Here, one of the two main tax sources of local authorities is a fixed percentage of the income tax of its registered inhabitants (which, as in France, the tax authority collects but then redistributes to local authorities according to residence registration data). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
