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New census data ranking Wake County 7^th in growth in the nation is sobering. 38,841 people moved to our county in just one year...that's as if an entire town was built in Wake in twelve months. Each day, approximately 100 people move here. The Triangle grew 30.6 percent

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Letter to Editor printed in Raleigh News&Observer May 13, 2008

The defeat Tuesday of a 0.4 percent land transfer tax in Orange County is another example of the rich manipulating the public. The ad campaign (of over $200,000 from N.C. real estate interests) said there is a better way to pay for schools and parks. But what way? The ever-popular remedy of increasing property taxes (the only real home tax)? More sales tax? A quarter-cent sales tax is not enough to pay for what is needed, and sales tax revenue doesn't keep up with growth. But the ads don't say that.