Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina Plans Campaign Against Sales Tax Increase

Group Will Host May Day (May 1st) Event to Issue Tax MAYDAY Distress Call

The grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina today announced a detailed campaign to help secure defeat of the proposed sales tax increase that is on the ballot in Lee County on May 6th. The group will work to inform voters of the already high tax burden in Lee County, and will urge citizens to reject the calls for an increase in the regressive sales tax.

"People and small businesses are already struggling in a changing economy," said Dallas Woodhouse, State Director of Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina. "This is not the time to raise taxes, this is the time for government to cut its budget like citizens do with their own family budget."

The group also announced it would host a MAYDAY-MAYDAY- Tax Distress Call to Action on Thursday, May 1st at 6:30 at the Lee County Ag Center/Ernest and Ruby McSwain Building.

MAYDAY MAYDAY-A TAX DISTRESS CALL TO ACTION

When: Thursday May 1st 6:30 P.M.

What: An Ice Cream Social and Call to Action meeting to inform voters of the heavy tax burden in Lee County. The event will include detailed analysis of public school spending in Lee County as well as a thorough review of county spending by the John Locke Foundation.

Where: Lee County Cooperative Extension Service
2420 Tramway Rd
Sanford, NC 27332-9174

Americans for Prosperity is a non-partisan organization that is committed to educating citizens about economic policies and mobilizing those citizens as advocates in the public policy process.

Lloyd Jennings, leader of the organizational effort in Lee County, said, "This increase in taxes would add to the costs of products and services in Lee County. We do not believe the people of Lee County are under taxed and we will take that message to the citizens in Lee County.”