When it comes to taxes, think of the jackpot

Friday, July 28, 2006

It occurred to Buster, sitting at the long table with its gleaming Formica at the Brew & Burp Club, that the prospect of paying more county sales tax ought to be, in some way, beneficial to the county's biggest city, which has no dusty gravel roads to speak of and considers its police force to be one of the finest around.

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