Posted
11/07/2007 05:40:00 PM
by Douglas
League City to the city council about their proposed tax hike:
suck it.Voters Tuesday struck down a proposition that would have raised the sales tax rate by a quarter-cent, despite efforts by a group of more than 100 business owners to promote the idea.
A winning vote would have created a municipal economic development district that would have used the extra sales tax for incentives to attract businesses to the city.
Of the 3,232 ballots cast, 57.6 percent of voters rejected the motion, compared with 42.4 percent who voted in favor of it, according to complete, unofficial results.
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Burrows said that some residents opposed the sales tax because they saw it as an increase in what they would pay. He said his group tried to educate residents that it could eventually help residents pay lower property taxes.
Catch that? Vote to raise your taxes, and maybe we'll lower your taxes. Sometime. Maybe. Fucking thieves.