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Here they come to bury the survivors.

February 03, 2009

Governor Culver signed a bill yesterday to allow an accelerated process for voting approval to local sales tax increases "to help pay for recovery efforts" from last summer's floods and storms. The first votes could be as early as March 3.

It will be interesting to see how the votes come out. If I were trying to rebuild a flood-damaged house or business, it wouldn't be immediately obvious to me that paying higher sales taxes would help. It wouldn't be too cynical to think this is really about helping the politicians get more money in a hurry.

Tags: Iowa tax policy.sales tax.