[sarcasm]

I've been warning for months that state and local taxes are going to skyrocket after the November elections - check this out:

States Drain Rainy Day Funds

[rohry]

Good post. The same thing is happening in here in South Carolina and New Hampshire (where I was raised)...

[Wyatt's Torch]

State and Local government spending represents 0.53 percentage points of the 6.1% GDP increase. The entire federal government (including defense spending) represented 0.69 points. Scary.