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various alternatives with regard to policy. I frankly

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don't see any point in submitting all these questions to

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the Commission unless we have made up our minds on them

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first or at least made up our minds.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Ridge, I would agree with that,

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except I feel it might be helpful to us to get some idea

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of the thinking of the Commission before we make up our

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minds; in other words, to see that the dog and its tail.

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get attached. We've got to get some thinking of the

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Commission or we're going to be out in the cold somewhere,

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if we don't do it. So, my thinking is, actually, if I

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may -- make your comments, please, Mr. Thompson.

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MR. THOMPSON: Mr. Chairman, I would just like

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to make this brief comment and that is that although I

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realize it applies to a narrow and particular area of

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government, nevertheless, I think it is such an important

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problem that you really ought to give some thought to it

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and that is one of the greatest inequities in local,

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government today is thought by most of us in the munici-

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pal government is the problem of double taxation, that

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citizens of municipalities pay the taxes of the