That hits the nail so squarely on the head, that there really is no comment I can make.
In the days of my youth the sales tax rate in South Carolina was three percent! We routinely now pay eight percent with different rates on different things rather than one constant rate. In my world it makes no sense that we need such steeply higher rates, especially when I reflect that we have a much more dense population now. Why should we need a HIGHER rate as population density INCREASES? What happened to economy of scale? If we got along OK back then with three percent (and I know we did) then we should be able to do OK with maybe two and a half percent now but instead we pay nearly three times the old rate. I think it is absurd and this is a state that is considered by the left to be “UNDERTAXED”, I say that if we are undertaxed Michael Moore is underweight and Bill Gates is broke. The state is becoming far more of a burden than the federal government used to be and the counties are trying to do the same.