North Carolina voters rejected 22 of 24 local sales and land-transfer tax increases proposed across North Carolina. John Locke Foundation research had helped expose the faulty reasoning local officials had used to justify higher tax rates. John Hood used Tuesday’s results to urge county commissioners to forget any future plans for seeking increases in the local sales or land-transfer taxes. The Asheville Citizen-Times, Fayetteville Observer, Sanford Herald, and Chatham Journal Weekly reported on JLF’s role in addressing the proposed local tax increases. JLF Vice President Chad Adams offered his post-tax vote analysis to the Jefferson Post, while Research Director and Local Government Analyst Michael Sanera discussed the issue with Lockwood Phillips on WTKF’s “Viewpoints Radio” program.