Property owners and taxpayers in North Carolina need to take a lesson from some good folks in Rhode Island. They put their tea-party momentum into expressing their opposition to a local tax increase:
In Woonsocket, RI, Tea Party activists swarmed the City Council and stopped massive new supplemental tax hikes to bail out the public school district. The tax measure, which had been expected to pass 6-1, went down by a 4-3 vote.
Those water-rate increases being contemplated by several local governments to make up for the conservation they asked us to undertake seem likely candidates for such a demonstration.
UPDATE: According the JLF’s Charlotte blogger Jeff Taylor, looks like folks in the Queen City have already learned that lesson.
UPDATE: The idea is spreading.
