In 2007 the General Assembly decided to give counties the chance to seek voter approval for higher sales or land-transfer taxes. Since then, voters have rejected the higher taxes 68 times in 85 tries.
In the upcoming elections, several counties have tax-hike proposals before their voters. The research staff at the John Locke Foundation are carefully evaluating each one of them and publishing our analyses in Regional Briefs so that county voters are better informed:
