The Milwaukee County Board wants to raise the sales tax by 1%. Their reasoning is that they want to relieve the burden on our property taxes. Are you kidding me?! If that truly is the case, why isn't there a Property Tax Cut out there as well? I would support it if there was.
But since there isn't lets look at this a little closer. Now remember I am not a politician, therefore I am not an expert at this at all. This sounds alot like the Obama Plan. Raise the taxes so they can pay for more things. This will raise approximately $63 million, they say. OK, we can count on $63 million in property tax relief? oops, i forgot. Anyway, if you raise the sales tax, what is to stop the consumers from going out of the country, I mean county to shop? Things will inevitably be cheaper by at least 1%. If that happens, won't that make Milwaukee less attractive to business? If I am looking to put in a business, won't it be more attractive to go to a surrounding county?
In a time when the economy is down, we already live in a tax hell here in Wisconsin let alone around Milwaukee, what are they doing?
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