Alabama Still Taking Taxes For Treason Benefits

[J.T]

Even though the Civil War ended generations ago, a property tax detail buried in Alabama's constitution still sets aside nearly half a million dollars a year for Confederate veterans' pensions


http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/07/why-alabama-still-collecting-taxes-confederate-veterans/40220/


Alabama has a total state debt of $28,324,562, when calculated by adding the total of outstanding debt, pension and OPEB UAAL’s, unemployment trust funds and the 2010 budget gap

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In early December 2010, Joyce Bigbee, the director of the Legislative Fiscal Office, estimate that the governor may have to eliminate 2.3% from the education budget and 8.5% from the General Fund budget for non-education agencies
http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Alabama_state_budget
Where to begin...?

[Trigg]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/07/why-alabama-still-collecting-taxes-confederate-veterans/40220/

http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Alabama_state_budget
Where to begin...?

Treason???

I don't think so..


On to the subject. IMHO the state should have stopped collecting this tax when the last recipient died.

[Gaffer]

Treason???

I don't think so..


On to the subject. IMHO the state should have stopped collecting this tax when the last recipient died.

But doing that could decrease the democrat voting rolls.