Tax and spend vs. law and order
How does this break down politically?
Mecklenburg County commissioners voted 5-3, along party lines, tentatively in favor of putting a quarter-cent sales-tax hike on the ballot in November, the Observer reports today.
Naturally, tax-and-spend Democrats supported the higher tax.
But the money raised would go for fighting crime. So where were law-and-order Republicans?
Well, nevermind all that. The voters will decide whether more law and order is worth more tax and spend.
Meanwhile, Greensboro City Council members are wrestling with road paving and shrub trimming and trying to avoid a tax increase. But those decisions are required because one priority already has been set in stone: police protection. More police funding, responding to public safety demands, is squeezing the rest of the budget.
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