NC Senate Gives Initial Approval to Sales-tax Cap

“Urban legislators argued the cap punishes large counties that want to schedule referenda on public transit or, as in Mecklenburg’s case, education. Mecklenburg’s local sales tax rate is already at 2.5 percent. The county had scheduled a November vote on a quarter-cent increase.” The NC Senate isn't great, but it least they seemed to be concerned about the beleagured taxpayers, who are the ones urban leglislators don't seem to mind punishing.