With their budgets squeezed by the sharp economic downturn, states and municipalities raised taxes furiously this last budget season. Legislators sold many of these new levies to a beleaguered citizenry as temporary fixes that are to be dedicated to paying for essential services that might otherwise have to be cut in an economic downturn.
But if the past is any prologue, many of these taxes will never go away, even when times get better, and the money from them won’t be used for the purposes for which they were designed. Indeed, all you have to do is look at how governments around the…
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