Shop Locally
To Support Your Community
The 2013 holiday shopping season is upon us and where you
shop can have a profound effect upon the local economy and quality of
life. It is important to do your holiday
shopping locally in the greater Carbondale community to support the local
economy and keep money circulating throughout our local community.
When you shop locally, you are supporting local businesses
which provide many jobs to area citizens and college students working to pay
their way through school and many of those local businesses are also very
generous in supporting local charities and fundraising activities which improve
our quality of life in the community.
These unique establishments help define our sense of place and maintain
community character, but we too often forget their survival depends on our
continued patronage. Local businesses
have a genuine interest in the well-being of our community and want the town to
grow and prosper.
Just as important, shopping locally builds the local tax
base by generating sales tax revenues for the city which are the primary source
of income to cover the yearly operational costs and provide the quality city
services citizens have come to expect.
If you do your shopping online, the money does not circulate
back into the local economy and the sales tax revenues are lost for local
purposes. When sales tax revenues do not
grow or remain low, then property taxes must climb to cover increasing city
costs, including State of Illinois mandated funding levels for police and fire
pension programs.
So to help and invest in your local community and business
community, keep money recycling locally, and generate much needed sales tax
revenues for local use, shop locally here in Carbondale this holiday season and
throughout the year.
