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'Little Rock sales tax'

The campaign against the city sales tax

Their money is negligible against the corporate money that has been poured into the city campaign to raise the sales tax by 200 percent so City Hall spending can increase by 26 percent annually, but opponents have gotten some printed material together, as the photo of a campaign worker sent by organizer Jim Lynch shows.
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John Walker opposes Little Rock sales tax

State Rep. John Walker, who carries community clout however much the white business establishment may resent it, is distributing a letter announcing his opposition to the Little Rock proposal to raise the half-cent sales tax by 200 percent.
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Poll: LR voters favor sales tax proposals UPDATE

The Arkansas Times commissioned polling this week on the two-part Little Rock sales tax election. It shows broad support for the two tax measures.

City Hall's bias

Elsewhere on this week's editorial page, you'll learn that the editorial board of the Arkansas Times decided after some debate to support the full penny worth of sales tax being sought by Little Rock City Hall. I'm not likely to go so far, though I understand the sentiment for the full penny.
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Lyncho departs with blast at LR sales tax

Noted: Pat Lynch's final column today for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette urged a vote against both elements of the proposed Little Rock sales tax increase.

Does Little Rock need a half-billion in new taxes?

The Democrat-Gazette reported this morning that the city of Little Rock has better police and fire staffing than several similar cities in the region — Tulsa and Austin, for example — despite having a lower city sales tax rate — a half-cent.
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The $500 million message

Like mushrooms in a cow patty, signs promoting the Little Rock sales tax increase have begun popping up in the neighborhod.

Community group opposes LR sales tax

Arkansas Community Organizations, the grass-roots group, has written a letter opposing the Little Rock one-cent sales tax increase.
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Give them tax money and they will come? Nope.

Chamber of commerce shills (see Arkansas Business publisher Jeff Hankins) are busily deriding those skeptical about putting a $38 million economic development slush fund in the Little Rock $500 million sales tax proposal.

A tale of two taxes

The organized campaigns for and against the tax proposals to be voted on Sept. 13 by a small subset of Little Rock kicked off this past week.
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More tax talk, this time pro

Mayor Mark Stodola, Police Chief Stuart Thomas, Fire Chief Greg Summers, Annie Abrams, Dexter Doyne, Jim Metzger and Yana-Janelle Scott are lined up to talk up the 1 percent city sales tax increase tomorrow at noon at the Willie Hinton Neighborhood Resource Center, 3805 W. 12th St. The Committee for Little Rock's Future is hosting the event, and calls attention, in a news release, to the diversity of the group.

Tax protest

Under a blistering sun, a half-dozen poster-waving members of the $500 Million Tax — To Much!
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