Well, that didn’t take long. The day after Wake County voters elected a new majority to the county commission, they are thanked for their vote with the news that the new commissioners are planning a tax hike.
As reported by WNCN yesterday:
The new commissioners said Wake County’s continued growth requires more mass transit.
“Light rail is a long ways off,” Hutchinson said. “We need to be thinking about a regional rail-type system.”
The incoming commissioners said the continued growth in Wake County will require the immediate expansion of bus service and to pay for that they’re talking about a sales tax.
“There is a specific provision in state legislation that allows us to raise a one half cent sales tax and direct that to public transportation,” Burns said.
If the sales tax is increased, it will be a double-whammy for Raleigh residents, who voted themselves a 1.72 cent property tax hike to pay off $92 million in new city debt.
TAX AND SPEND! TAX AND SPEND! That’s what liberals do . . . TAX AND SPEND!
This was predicted prior to the elections. West Raleigh, and all residents who did not come out to retain the previous BOC, you really did yourself in. The tax and spend crowd just stole your wallet. C2
What a shock – NOT. I hope all the Yankees who came down here to escape high taxes and voted these folks in are happy now. They are turning what was my lovely home town into the place they left!