I've always joked about the politics of my adopted state, but recent moves by my Legislature now make me want to cry. They have gotten rid of property taxes for homeowners. Woo-hoo! Great! But wait, 60 percent of that went to public schools. That's okay, they say, we'll make it up with a one-cent increase in state sales tax. All right! That's smart! But wait, I live in a border county. People already flock here from Charlotte for lower property taxes, but they still work and do all their shopping in Charlotte. Think that will change? Whoops, there goes all the revenue for schools! And they were already so stellar! And what if people actually STOP spending on credit and the economy adjusts downward? Do we really need to entrust our education system to consumer apetites?
Now, I'm not great at finding links, and for some reason this issue is being more fickle than it should be, but here's one related story from my local paper. And there was a pretty decent editorial Sunday, but of course the link doesn't work. Oh well, I'm sure the tech savvy can find out more!
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So, think that Mississippi is now pretty excited about this? Finally, someone else will be No. 50!
Man, this place is so backwards.
-Shana
And I failed to point out that all the sales tax money will go to Columbia to be redistributed from there. Sure, I trust them to be fair!
Florida has done wonderful (cough) things with their education (choke) system using only the sales tax. And we have way more tourists spending money than SC.
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