With the exception of Orange and Guilford counties, support for sales-tax increases was dismal. About eight in ten voters in Cherokee, Harnett, and Person counties voted to reject the tax increase. As Mitch Kokai pointed out (at 11:09 p.m. last night), “Based on election-night tallies, more than 60 percent of the 326,000 North Carolina voters who had a chance to address local sales-tax increases said no.”
The rejection of all 14 sales-tax proposals suggests that voters wanted better AND smaller government.
