South Carolina Tax Break

[Nautilus]

In South Carolina, the sales tax is 6%. In order to reward our senior octogenarians for having paid sales tax all their lives, South Carolina has a law that allows persons age 85 or older (with proof of age) a 1% reduction: 5%! Comments?

 

[C'est Moi]

Wow. A reason to live to 85 AND move to SC. What a deal.

 

[Aunt Bea]

IMO the various levels of government should drop the gimmicks and treat all taxpayers the same.

 

[CarolfromTX]

Hardly a major incentive. But like so many things nowadays, it's meant to look good rather than actually benefit anyone.

 

[DaveA]

Maybe an election on the horizon? These little gimmicky things can grab a few votes from the -uh- less educated folks (to put it politely). Stuff like this isn't limited to S. Carolina - -it's fairly widespread. Another favorite is to promote some meaningless law to show someone is "tough on crime".
All in good fun here in the old U. S. of A.

 

[oldman]

Whoever the congress person was that initiated the bill and got it passed is an idiot and should not be reelected. A whopping 1% on anything is not beneficial to even the poor.