Not a bad idea
From the N&O's coverage of yesterday's State Senate proceedings on Durham's restaurant meals tax:
I'm still getting used to the idea that every time a municipality in North Carolina wants to do something, it has to get down on bended knee before the state legislature in Raleigh and beg for permission. But the double standard exhibited by the likes of Senator Hunt is just annoying. We didn't get a chance to vote for him. Why does he get to make decisions for us?
By the way, the bill advanced for another reading. Not sure why only 38 senators voted on it, though.
State Sen. Neal Hunt, a Raleigh Republican, said it was a bad time to allow a new tax on restaurant meals.
He said he'd heard from small restaurant owners in Durham who said they were barely surviving the bad economy.
Senate leader Marc Basnight jokingly asked whether Hunt wanted to run an amendment taking away Wake's tax.
I'm still getting used to the idea that every time a municipality in North Carolina wants to do something, it has to get down on bended knee before the state legislature in Raleigh and beg for permission. But the double standard exhibited by the likes of Senator Hunt is just annoying. We didn't get a chance to vote for him. Why does he get to make decisions for us?
By the way, the bill advanced for another reading. Not sure why only 38 senators voted on it, though.
Labels: local politics
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Wake has had this tax since 1993. 15 years!
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Valerie at We Love Durham, at 2:53 AM
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