All us locals pay the same high sales taxes at restaurants and everywhere else. The only saving grace is we have no income tax.
They made sales taxes punitively high to try to get us yokels to budge on the income tax, but we didn’t blink. Unfortunately they forgot to reduce it once the issue was (theoretically) dead and buried. Now we have pots full of money left over that they need to spend or bury (balanced budget required) and twice a year they grant us peons a “tax free day”.... but only on what they think we should be buying.
(((spit)))
I hate politicians.
They made your bed, now you lay in it! ; )
:)
You hate politicians. I would too if I lived in Tennessee it seems the state has a long history of reelecting corrupt politicians the likes of the Ford family. And unfortunately it doesn’t look like voters are making much effort to change that. Maybe Bob Corker will start a new trend.