All tagged sales tax
For more than a decade, sales tax dollars intended to support Lenoir County’s volunteer fire departments were miscalculated. The mistake is confirmed. The scope of the error is not. Was it five dollars? Fifty thousand? Five million? At this point, county officials and fire chiefs agree: no one knows.
Due to GOP tax policy over the past decade, in other words, North Carolina’s state sales-tax burden went down, not up, by hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Alas, some of this effect was offset by increases in county sales taxes. Who is responsible for those hikes? Democrats, overwhelmingly. Democratic politicians authorized those sales-tax referenda and Democratic voters were most likely to favor them.
