D.C. officials earn in city, live in burbs�

"More than half of the D.C. government's employees live outside the District, taking about 60 percent of the government's $1.73 billion payroll to spend -- and be taxed -- in the suburbs... The District imposes a 5.75 percent sales tax and a property tax rate of 92 cents per $100 assessed value. It also levies a top income tax rate of 9 percent... Of the 4,723 persons on the police department payroll last year, about a quarter — 1,193 — lived in the city. Of the fire department's 1,988 employees, 580 were city residents, or 29.2 percent."
By Matthew Cella
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 19, 2006