Editor:
In the July 8 News-Times editorial, “No to T-SPLOST, yes to Sunday sales,” it is correctly pointed out that raising the sales tax from 7 percent to 8 percent is an increase of 14 percent. If that were the true cost to the consumer, it would scare anyone from voting for T-SPLOST.
However, I believe it should also have shown the affect that T-SPLOST will have on the consumer’s dollar. A dollar spent would cost the consumer $1.08 rather than $1.07.
That is a 1 percent increase on purchases made by the consumer. Ten dollars spent at Walmart would cost an extra 10 cents. Most of us would not find that burdensome.
I agree that raising the gas tax would be a better way to fund transportation, but I question when, or if, our politicians would have the courage to make that change.
Irvin E. Ingraham
Grovetown
They would not...
Instead, they convince us to raise our own taxes so they can hold themselves blameless.
$840 per Year per Family
It's actually a huge increase in local taxes that will result in the average family paying $840 a year more in taxes for the next ten years.