A Martha's Vineyard Tax Revolt

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/05/a-marthas-vineyard-tax-revolt

Voters in the Martha's Vineyard town of Oak Bluffs recently rejected, by a 172-102 vote, a proposed 2% tax increase on hotel rooms, and also voted down a proposed 3% raise for the town clerk, keeping his salary at $74,360 instead of the suggested $76,590, the Martha's Vineyard Times reports. Shortly thereafter, voters in the neighboring Martha's Vineyard town of Tisbury, also known as Vineyard Haven, voted 934 to 606 to reject a tax increase proposed to fund a $225,000 increase to police pay, the Martha's Vineyard Gazette reports.

When supermajorities on the liberal, Democratic island of Martha's Vineyard are voting down tax increases that would fund pay increases for public employees, there's something really happening in this country.

by Ira Stoll  |  May 6, 2010 at 9:46 pm Related Topics:  Martha's Vineyard, Taxes receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list