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We've known about this quarter-cent sales tax for a while now.
So this letter ran today, which said was signed by Commissioner Kay Cashion and a few others, including Billy Yow, Paul Gibson, John Parks, Kirk Perkins, Mike Winstead and Linda Shaw.
In print and online it was only listed that other commissioners signed, so we're putting the full list here.
The folks at the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition want you to vote for the sales tax. They've been circulating an ad on behalf of the tax, which is on the May 6 ballot (click to enlarge):
The politics at play here is pretty simple: the legislature gave counties the authority to enact a sales tax or a property tax increase to take care of some expenses related to Medicaid, schools and what not. It's an either/or proposition. So doing the sales tax avoids the property tax, and the builders, developers and Realtors who make up TREBIC hate them some property tax.
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