Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation director of health and fiscal policy studies, discusses Harnett County’s push for a sales-tax hike. He offered these comments for an Oct. 15, 2010, report on News 14 Carolina.
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Give it back
Last week the non-partisan Fiscal Research Division of the North Carolina General Assembly forecast yet another $1 billion+ surplus in anticipated tax revenues for the 2024–2025 fiscal year. That’s on top of the $400+ million in surplus collections for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The news, the latest in a decade-long run of tax revenue surpluses,...