octubre 7, 2025
The Pet Tax Nobody Talks About: How Charlotte’s Transit Proposal Hits Working Families and Their Dogs
Less Cash For You, Fewer Treats For Your Pets When local leaders pitch a new 1% sales tax for transportation, they package it with glossy...
about The Pet Tax Nobody Talks About: How Charlotte’s Transit Proposal Hits Working Families and Their Dogsoctubre 6, 2025
25 Years of Promises: Why The Transportation Tax Is a Bridge Too Far
They Admit To Their Broken Promises As the years have gone by, we're reminded of something much larger than a calendar: we've been watching the...
about 25 Years of Promises: Why The Transportation Tax Is a Bridge Too Faroctubre 2, 2025
The False Choice: Why a Sales Tax Isn’t The Only Option
Don't trust them when they say Sales Tax is the only option! If you've been following the push for the new 1% sales tax, you've...
about The False Choice: Why a Sales Tax Isn’t The Only Optionseptiembre 30, 2025
Broken Promises and a Board Without Riders: Why Trust the New Transit Authority?
A Pattern of Promises Broken When elected officials and corporate mouthpieces ask the public to approve a new 1% sales tax, they tell us it's...
about Broken Promises and a Board Without Riders: Why Trust the New Transit Authority?septiembre 25, 2025
If They Can’t Even Fund the Study, How Can We Trust Them With $20 Billion?
If They Can't Even Fund the Study, How Can We Trust Them With $20 Billion? Before a single dollar from the proposed Mecklenburg County sales...
about If They Can’t Even Fund the Study, How Can We Trust Them With $20 Billion?septiembre 23, 2025
It’s Not Just a Penny
It's Not Just a Penny Even though the first year's cost is an increase of $240 (as widely reported), and that might not feel like...
about It’s Not Just a Pennyseptiembre 18, 2025
Hiding Facts
When you go to the polls this November, the question on the ballot will look simple. It will ask whether you support raising the sales...
about Hiding Factsseptiembre 15, 2025
Who Benefits From The Tripling of the Transportation Tax?
Who Benefits?: How the Transit Tax Puts the Weight on Working Families Politicians and business elites love to tell us this new sales tax is...
about Who Benefits From The Tripling of the Transportation Tax?septiembre 12, 2025
This Time It Will Be Different? We’ve Heard That Before.
Every few years, Charlotte's political and business elite return with the same polished pitch. "This time it will be different," they say. But for working...
about This Time It Will Be Different? We’ve Heard That Before.agosto 13, 2025
Who is and isn’t backing the roads/transportation tax WFAE
Mecklenburg County voters will decide in November whether to increase the sales tax by one cent, to 8.25%, to pay for a multibillion-dollar...
about Who is and isn’t backing the roads/transportation tax WFAE