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Des Moines Power Grab: GOP Alternative to SILO Takeover

By zach ⋅ April 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I wrote here regarding the current attempt in Des Moines to move the SILO tax into the state sales tax and the lack of guarantees for where the money will be used as well as the destruction of the ‘local option.’ It appears that Iowa Senate GOP members have come up with an alternative which [...]

Des Moines Power Grab: Local? Option?

By zach ⋅ April 18, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Not to long ago we went through the annoying process of voting for a local option sales tax known as the SILO tax which was meant to be used for school infrastructure funding. Linn and Johnson counties were the last two in the state to pass this new tax after it was generally approved by [...]

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