Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation director of legal and regulatory studies, discusses the letters he’s sent to three county school systems, the city of Durham, and Orange County government. The letters warn of taxpayer dollars misused in promoting sales-tax referendums on the Nov. 8 ballot.
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