Regional Balance
Some governments use equalization pools to achieve social balance, so that richer regions with fewer needs for state aid pay taxes into an equalization pool from which poorer regions needing financial assistance to provide the same level of services as the richer regions can draw on.
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Famous quotes containing the word balance:
“At last I feel the equal of my parents. Knowing you are going to have a child is like extending yourself in the world, setting up a tent and saying “Here I am, I am important.” Now that I’m going to have a child it’s like the balance is even. My hand is as rich as theirs, maybe for the first time. I am no longer just a child.”
—Anonymous Father. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 5 (1978)