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Taxes
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large but it is still a very significant 16 percent and combined represents a massive 38 percent drop from 2006 to 2008. Overall, there was a 16 percent drop from calendar year 2007 to 2008.
There were establishments that went out of business or changed what they did — the Public House and Four & Twenty Blackbirds for instance — but there were also new businesses such as Stonewall Abbey in Spenyville.
85.5%