According to the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Johnson and Linn counties in Iowa are voting tomorrow on a 20% hike in the sales tax in order to fund school improvements and the lie of property tax relief. Both areas are controlled by Democrats, so it's likely that the measures will pass. The weather's going to be pretty crappy, so I'm not sure how that might affect things.
Des Moines eventually got a 1% local option sales tax passed in 1999 thanks to Eric "The Liar" Witherspoon's promise of not closing any schools. Of course the first thing Eric The Liar did after getting his money was to propose the closing of numerous schools.
And what about that property tax relief for Des Moines residents? Well, if you farted then that's all the relief you got.
The Des Moines School Board, last summer, proposed imposing a statewide sales tax increase because they know that the local dupes won't renew another 10 year local option tax due to all the financial mismanagement, lies about property tax relief, and other fraud that con artists like Eric The Liar used to get the first tax passed. It'll be interesting to see how that all plays out. Do some Iowans want to be paying 7% in sales taxes, in addition to all the property and income taxes?
As I said last August:
You know, how did Iowa manage to educate anybody before 1983? Before 1983, the sales tax in Iowa was 3%, gambling was limited to Bingo Night, and most working people could afford a middle class home without having to pay skyrocketing property taxes in order to support every greaseball Democrat's relatives in Polk County and pay corporate welfare to all the Friends Of Mike Blouin.
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