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This bullstuff about the Republicans and Democrats reachingan agreement on the Jeff. County mess is so flawed. This is nothing but an agreed upon BS story so both sides can get what they want. The reasoning is as follows;
1. The legislature can not delegate it’s taxing authority to a vote of the people except in certain cases and the occupational tax does not apply to that case. So all they would have to do in 2011 would be to file a lawsuit stating the bill was unconstituional and the bill will have a severability clause in it that states if any part of this bill is found unconstitutional soooo – the rest of the bill is still applicable —- then you would have a permanent tax.
2. This should be done by a local constituional bill but one no vote would make the bill be voted on statewide and guess what would happen then?? It would go down faster than LaLa will in federal court.
This is nothing but a sham, farce, trickery, and just flat out deceiving the public. Shame shame
Please excuse all errors as this was done in big hurry and I don’t have time to check.