The active push for a sales tax hike in Orange County has begun.
WCHL has posted a story that includes an interview with Aaron Nelson, president of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, who tells the reporter he “convened a meeting of business and government and the local community leaders” to give him “advice about what role the chamber could play and how we should get this quarter-cent sales tax passed in November.”
The chamber is influential and represents a formidable pro-tax hike lobby that is now working with government to pass the tax hike and, thus, impose an even higher cost-of-living on Orange County residents. For background on the Orange County situation, read my story from July.
No word yet on the county’s planned tax hike information campaign, for which commissioners have approved up to $40,000 of public money.
Orange is one of several counties that have placed the tax hike on the Nov. 2 ballot. Earlier this month, Watauga County voters defeated the tax hike by an overwhelming margin, snapping a win streak.
