Dr. Michael Sanera, John Locke Foundation director of research and local government studies, discusses N.C. counties’ pursuit of local sales-tax increases in a group of referendums placed on the the Nov. 2, 2010, ballot. Sanera offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 388).
JLF’s Michael Sanera critiques local sales-tax votes in North Carolina
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