@SeaFury They are and an additional 1% added to restaurant food.
Overall it's a good state for services to those who need it, and lots of free things to do paid by the state. All the state museums are free. And the Natural History museum is first rate.
@RegGuy 
That is good to hear. Hope it stays that way. Your elections are in progress I guess? I am trying to not get too many US election toots on my feed, so I have a filter 
It makes me anxious and I'm not even USian!
@SeaFury I have no posts on it, except to comment on someone else's post.
It is exceptionally stressful. One side has become so hateful it's frightening what's going to happen when their guy loses.
@RegGuy I kinda know you guys are voting because people have changed their nicks to say "voted". I shall keep my filters up, thinking of you guys over there.
@SeaFury Thanks, we started mid-October and early voting ended yesterday. Election day is Tuesday.
Shields up, arm the photon torpedos.
@SeaFury We left Florida, we are pretty safe here in the city we moved to in North Carolina. Surrounded by a sea of blue.
@RegGuy Also less tornado danger, not entirely zero though....
@SeaFury The city we left in FL was the one hit by most of the tornadoes in the last storm.
In this day and age, no place is zero chance of bad weather.
@SeaFury Yes, I remember. And the terrible mudslides and flooding in western North Carolina from a tropical storm. They are 360 miles inland from the nearest coast.
