Once again Charmeck tops the North Carolina tax list. That is five years in a row for the Queen City. Talk about consistency.
The new John Locke Foundation By the Numbers report puts Charlotte’s tax burden at about $2,185 per resident for 2004. And guess what? Since we’ve raised taxes since then, the number is even higher today. Yippee!
Among the 26 cities with populations over 25,000, Charlotte had the highest combined city-county tax and fee collections per capita. Wilmington, Asheville, Durham, and Chapel Hill were also in the top five. The lowest per-capita collections were in Jacksonville, followed by Thomasville, Goldsboro, Kannapolis, and Rocky Mount.
The overal local tax burden as percentage of income also continues to grow, up to 5.90% in Mecklenburg for 2004 from 5.75% in 2003. That is exactly what you would expect from our current tax-and-spend leadership.
Ever get the feeling nothing is going to change until taxpayers get sick of this business?
