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Do bicycles and cars mix?
"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
So why did Virginia raise sales taxes by 12% a few years ago? DTJ wrote: I wonder how they figured it to be 12%? They didn't call it that. It was an increase from 4% to 4.5%. They called it a half percent increase. I called it a twelve and a half percent increase. The subsequent proposed 22% increase, 4.5% to 5.5%, they called a "penny tax". I was tempted to go to city hall, hand them a penny, and tell them that now that I've paid my tax in full, I never want to hear from them again. Homewood school district tried to more than triple taxes a few years ago. They claimed it was only a 3% raise. They neglected to tell you that was on top of the already 1.5% tax rate, and the new total would be 4.5%. Voters weren't that stupid. Likewise in Virginia. The proposed 22% increase was defeated. -- Keith F. Lynch - - http://keithlynch.net/ I always welcome replies to my e-mail, postings, and web pages, but unsolicited bulk e-mail (spam) is not acceptable. Please do not send me HTML, "rich text," or attachments, as all such email is discarded unread. |
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