Between 7 and 9 percent of the budget comes from taxes on capital gains.
But the larger part is supposed to come from direct taxes.
In 1983, the professor said, 23 percent of the national revenue came from direct taxes.
The money would come from taxes raised during the course of the project.
Just because this money wouldn't come from taxes, so what?
"But we came from Huntington and taxes there were high too."
As a result, more than half the money in the District budget comes from local taxes.
Some government revenues also came from taxes, of which the most important was the general industrial and commercial tax.
Since then the money has come from various general and local taxes.
The money came from taxes, of course: local, state, and federal.