North Carolina is second in the nation in the share of its road expenses paid for by gas taxes and license fees, which was 63 percent as of 2013.
If growth causes tax hikes and recession causes tax hikes, then it’s kind of difficult to see what wouldn’t cause tax hikes.
RALEIGH — Clint Willis isn’t bitter toward Scotland County voters, even though they didn’t re-elect him to the county Board of Commissioners in November. He regrets only that he couldn’t put the brakes on residents’ growing property-tax burden. His hard feelings are reserved for what he thinks helped get him booted from office: his opposition to the county’s 42-year-old “school floor” law. Willis told residents the 1963 state law, which applies only to Scotland County, places an undue financial burden on property owners by requiring them to fund local schools at a specific level.
