Unsuccessfully I searched to find how Cuyahoga county ranks after Dimora and Hagan voted in the .25% increase to our sales tax (that the Plain Dealer so much endorsed - they probably all live and shop in the burbs). I know that we are not first in the nation, New York and Chicago probably have that honor, but if our combined state and local tax burden was rated 5th in the nation in 2007 we may have snuck up a notch.
Although I am curious where the money is coming from. If we are ranked #1 or so in poverty, then who the heck is paying for this? You would think the money would go directly back into the pockets of those that need it, not into some Chicago based organization that has or hasn't quite committed to the city yet depending on whom you ask.
Good times.
You may be able to do something to get the whole thing put on a public ballot (imagine, the public being asked about issues that affect them - CRAZY!)
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