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[Now l ^ommeni on me sales tax on food. It is interesting to note that the sales tax bill was passed in 1966 to become effective in 1968.
The primary purpose of the sales tax, then as now, was to fund the cost of operating the Community College system.
A new concept in the field of education which has saved our students in*. Orange, Madison, Rappahannock and Culpeper thousands of dollars it would have cost them to attend the major colleges.
All 23 community colleges have been asked to cut back on their staffing which is already overworked at Germanna. The total revenue from food alone in 1979 was S178 million and the anticipated revenue in 1980 is $193 million, which is 25 per cent of the total sales tax revenue.
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