Taxing Time for Tampa Trains

REVIEW SUMMARY
What. Voters will decide if Hillsborough's sales tax should go to 8%.
Issue. Is it wiser to fund more buses instead of subsidizing more costly rail?
Impact. Future economic development and job growth counted on to offset continuous taxpayers' subsidies.

Business and environmental groups have formed an unusual alliance to increase the Hillsborough County sales tax from 7% to 8% to help pay for $15 billion in rail, bus and road improvements over the next 30 years.

Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio calls it, “the most significant public policy issue of this century.”