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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...

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octubre 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...

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octubre 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...

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septiembre 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...

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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...

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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...

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septiembre 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...

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septiembre 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...

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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...

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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...

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