Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, explains that N.C. legislators’ discussion of sales tax reform has missed the mark. Cordato offers more details in the new report Reforming the Sales Tax: Keep in mind liberty, prosperity, and sound principles of taxation.
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