Every gallon of gasoline you pump would cost you 5.5 cents more.

You'd pay 19 cents more each month to run the water from your tap.

The medicines you take to treat your illnesses would cost an additional 88 cents a month.

Turning on the lights and the television would help run up an additional 79 cents a month on the electricity bill for the typical South Carolina household.

You would have to open your wallets for new taxes at the grocery store and get used to paying for sales taxes on more of the services you buy, such as home pest control treatment, pampering at the beauty salon and a storage unit to stash your stuff.

Read it all.

Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Consumer/consumer spending • Corporations/Corporate Life • Taxes • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • Energy, Natural Resources • Politics in General • State Government

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