Yow soldiers on for sales tax
Billy Yow plans to remain the unlikely champion of a 1-cent sales tax increase.
Having failed to convince the local legislative delegation to pursue an increase specifically for Guilford County in Raleigh, Yow will lobby leaders in other counties to join his cause -- as a statewide matter.
Yow also favored a failed quarter-cent sales tax increase in Guilford that voters soundly defeated on the May 6 ballot.
He still thinks such a tax would be more of a benefit than a burden to county residents. I tend to agree. But he and I obviously are in the minority.
"This isn't over by a long shot," he told me Thursday.
Maybe so. But fierce opponents of the sales tax increase (including Rep. Pricey Harrison) see eye-to-eye with Yow on only two of those words: "long shot."
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Well, I'm for it because it's regressive and against it because it's a tax. Given those two variables, it's not surprising that strange bedfellows emerge on the issue.
Posted on June 14, 2008 4:55 AM