Dr. Michael Sanera, John Locke Foundation director of research and local government studies, discusses the strategy N.C. counties use to win voter approval for local sales-tax increases. Sanera offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 438).
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