Joe King, who owns a hardware store that would be affected by Hendersonville’s proposed 12-cent tax overlay, “staged a one-man taxpayer uprising” during a meeting of the Seventh Avenue Advisory Committee. King would pay an additional $630 a year, and he argued that money would be better spent improving property. Said King:
Taxes are a disincentive. How is making it more expensive going to incentivize people to re-energize Seventh Avenue?
City Councilman Steve Caraker replied that the new tax would improve property values all around. Had King, by odd chance been suffering PMS, he would have picked up on the “Get out of Dodge” angle.
