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!
Even though i live in South jersey...i would willingly and happily pay this tax...