Florence city tax rate increasing by 1%. May not be much, just 1%, meaning that the Sales Tax for purchases made in the city will rise from 8.5% to 9.5% and at least they didn't scream for the usual reasons. Usually, whenever a tax increase is sought they scream that it's for education and for teachers. I'm all for increasing the pay level for firefighters and police and even for keeping our Educational system competitive and the 1% tax rise isn't that egregious to me.
I just am never surprised to hear the pitch for new or higher taxes due to education rather than for the other reasons that are just as important. I still think that the county rate, for items shipped to a county address, outside city limits, is around 5.5% but then folks like Amazon.com usually use the higher city rate rather than the county rate that they should use and that does become a problem or should be but then it's often tough to find anyone at amazon.com that will listen to anything.