Could it be that Orange County Commissioner Barry Jacobs thinks the sales tax hike was defeated by Orange voters because they just didn’t know enough about it? From the Chapel Hill News:
The campaign, which had a logo, website and advertisements ended up costing the county just under $36,000, but some say it may have not been effective.
“I was struck, while handing out literature at the polls, by people who didn’t know what it was,” Jacobs said.
Perhaps one day the commissioners will take to heart that a growing number of Orange County residents reject the continual expansion of government — and the continual push for more taxpayer cash to fund it. In 2008, Orange voters also rejected, by a 2-to-1 margin, the proposed land transfer tax hike.
A great example of the county’s irresponsible spending: the $45,000 appropriated earlier this year for Commissioner Jacob’s breast-feeding initiative.
