We knew this would happen.
Carolina Journal reports that several N.C. counties will ask voters for more tax revenues in spite of Medicaid relief provided by the state earlier this year:
Eleven counties across the state want to impose up to a 0.4 percent levy on property transfers, and 11 others seek permission to increase their sales tax by one-quarter percent. Five more counties have placed both measures on their ballots, but if voters approve each of them, then commissioners may only impose one or the other.
But according to analyses by the John Locke Foundation, which publishes Carolina Journal, some counties are sitting on healthy revenue reserves — or would be had they not shared their resources with nonprofit organizations and corporations through economic incentives — and the need for additional taxes is questionable at best.
The good news is citizens don’t appear to be buying in, according to an Elon University poll:
“….the prospects for passing a transfer tax in North Carolina counties doesn’t look promising as citizens indicate that local referenda on the transfer tax will face an uphill battle,” said Hunter Bacot, director of the Elon University Poll. “While it may pass in some counties due to purely local circumstances, citizens across the state are adamantly against this tax.”
Good.
