Guilford County Commissioners reject a resolution pursuing legislative approval to raise the county sales tax by one cent. Voting against the measure were Bruce Davis, Carolyn Coleman, Skip Alston, Steve Arnold, Billy Yow, Kirk Perkins.

Yow sums up the situation:

“This county right here frequently commits to give millions away for businesses to come here—these businesses are owned by multi-millionaires—these people couldn’t spend all their money if they quit working and tried every day……

We’re telling the people right now that this is alternative to keeep from raising your taxes, when reality that’s not true. We could be more responsible stewards of the taxpayers’ money. The legislators could, the senators could, and the Board of County Commissioners and the City Council members need to come to realize that we need to be stewards of the funds that we collect, and that’s not what we’re doing. This right here is a CYB and that’s cover your butt is what everyone’s trying to do from their frivolous spending of the years gone by.