When Allen County politicians wanted a restaurant tax to remodel the coliseum, I believed them that it would be a limited tax for a specific reason for a set amount of time. Of course, that was a long time ago, and the tax is still here -- they keep finding new uses for it that have nothing to do with the coliseum. I let their apparent sincerity overcome my skepticism, a healthy look at reality that realizes, "No tax ever dies."
But for now, every time you make a cell phone call, you'll continue to pay for a war fought more than 107 years ago.
