3 cents for pop bottles when I was growing up. Most days you could just about pick up enough walking the mile or so to the store if you worked both ditches. 3 cents and a popsicle was 7 cents. Taxes were 3 cents and my sis and I knew just where the breaks were for another penny. We’d buy things separately to avoid the round up on the sales tax. Buy one popsicle and no tax, buy two and add a penny. Keep the penny and save it for bubble gum at 2 cents each.
More than 50 years later the sales tax has tripled and the cost of a popsicle is? It went up by inflation but taxes went up by about THREE times the inflation rate and we are getting less for our our taxes that is useful to most of us who work and pay for the services.
I remember when the tax off a dime was removed. 1970 or so.
That was a blessing to a child that counted pennies with the best of em’.