By Tom Blumer | for Ohio Watchdog
Three proposed tax increases in Ohiocommunities are so large that they make one wonder if the Buckeye State should revive an old state slogan — ”The Heart of It All” — and change it to “The Heart of Taxation.”
One of the increases came to my attention in a phone call. A polite young lady encouraged me to support the upcoming police levy for Deerfield Township in Warren County. I asked her if the levy was a renewal of an existing tax or a tax increase.
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She didn’t know.
Seriously.
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It turns out the levy is a tax increase, and that one has to work a lot harder than should be necessary to determine how large that increase is.
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