Sales tax keeps Placerville financially solvent
By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee
There’s plenty of bustle on Placerville’s Main Street, but it’s a small-town kind of bustle, not the sort that suggests an economic giant.
Despite the quaintness of the old town, this city has the Sacramento region’s highest per capita sales tax revenue – accomplished without the big new malls and auto centers of nearby economic behemoths Folsom and Roseville.
Based on a Bee analysis of sales tax revenue, Placerville’s revenue for 2009-10 comes to $280 for each man, woman and child in town.
