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IPFS News Link • TAXES: State
Ala. still collecting tax for Confederate vets
• APThe last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home
to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are
still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them. Despite
fire-and-brimstone opposition to taxes among many in a state that still
has "Heart of Dixie" on its license plates, officials never stopped
collecting a property tax that once funded the Alabama Confederate
Soldiers' Home, which closed 72 years ago.