An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Podunk Politics
It’s not just the federal government that likes to keep taxes at a certain rate, and will raise them for purposes that sound good at the time, but end up being spend in ways the citizens never approved.
I don’t much care for that phrase “progressive city”. 
Since Savannah is the county seat, and what happens there, affects the entire county, I’m more than a little annoyed that the commissioners put out this resolution. I happened to hear the Hardin County mayor, Kevin Davis, (named in the lawsuit that no longer seems to be online) speak yesterday. Naturally, as a politician, he opposes the reduction of the sales tax from 2.5 to 1.5. When they put that tax in place, it was with the understanding that the extra money would be used for the upkeep of the county schools. Instead, they have decided to build two mega schools, and will busing the kids from all over the county to Savannah.
Oddly enough, I’d rather pay a little more in property tax and pay less at the stores. In the long run, it would even out in the end. The property taxes are amazingly low here, compared to other places in the country. But paying over 9% in sales taxes is a whopper. There’s a possibility that people would spend more in stores if the sales tax was lower, and increase the county’s coffers.
Just a thought.
