[fatnotlazy]

My father always said there is no such thing as a temporary tax. He was right and this proves it.

[john drake]

yep, never met a politician or government for that matter, that didn’t like a new tax program, especially since they never, ever go away. Look at the tollway system of most major cities, once the roads were paid for, the tax, err, toll, was supposed to go away. 50 years later, they’re still here and several times higher than the original.

[RC one]

especially true with property taxes from what I have seen. They pass the same "emergency" school levy every two years in my district and they're trying to throw on top of that a new school levy tax that will last for the next 17 years after that. The voters shot it down so they're trying to sneak it through in a special election this march. luckily it will be super Tuesday and Republicans will be out voting in force and will be in no mood for 17 years of increased property taxes. If they manage to get their new property tax, they'll be back in two more years demanding another levy on top of that. It never ends.

[Colorado Cowgirl]

Alabama Still Collecting Taxes For Confederate Civil War Veterans. The last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them. Officials never stopped collecting a property tax that once funded the Alabama Confederate Soldiers’ Home, which closed 72 years ago. The tax now pays for Confederate Memorial Park, which sits on the same 102-acre tract where elderly veterans used to stroll. 138 years after the war ended and 45 years after the death of its last veteran. This tax was on property you owned so no one ever checked. Sneaky, lying politicians one and all!