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I’d like to make a complaint about the tax department in Beaufort County. My wife just went down there to pay the taxes … but it was going to charge her an extra $45 for using the Visa card. Well, she wouldn’t pay it. And I’d like for everybody in Beaufort County to know what they’re doing down there.

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