Jay Reeves has the story, which is a pretty interesting one. The tax is used now, among other purposes, to maintain Confederate Memorial Park. Reminds me of some other examples of reparations for the era of Civil War I have seen of late.
Alabama collects tax originally for Confederate veterans
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Hi Al,
Thanks much for posting about this. Thanks to you, I am entirely immersed in research on early pensions acts in our fair state, so learning that the tax supporting such a pension in Alabama still continues is absolutely fascinating.
What's the cliche — the Civil War is still going on in the South?
Daniel–looking forward to hearing about what you're finding regarding pensions. I'm not sure I deserve credit for that, though!