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it is official.
The report given concerning our ABC store. In the
month of July, they sold $205,294.37 of their merchandise.
If you add that by 12 months, you will have $2,463,532.44.
Now, I'm assuming that my good friend Bob Randall wouldn't
imbibe as heavily as I do and so we would say that in
Mooresville, give an estimation that they have sold
$75,000 in the month of July. That would give us a grand
total of $2,472,532.44. Now it seems to me that inspite
of the recession, inspite of unemployment, that people
have money to spend and they are spending it.
Now I think it is our responsibility as civic leaders,
religious leaders, educational leaders, and public officials
to see if we can motivate or influence these people to
redirect their resources.
Now in the Mooresville Tribune was this article.
It doesn't say how much gross sales the y had in July
but the title says, "Recession Proof Year for Mooresville
ABC". Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a responsibility
to see what we can do to help people to understand that
if they are taxed for meeting human needs, it is something
that they should do. And I see no reason why that any
person would object to paying taxes to meet human needs,
whether it's hospitals, whether is is schools. And I
was in a meeting last week where Dr. Williams stated that
they need to make considerable capital improvements in
our public schools. Now it just seems to me that you and I