Sales tax fails a second time in Guilford County
GREENSBORO - For the second time in a year, voters shot down a quarter-cent sales tax proposal in Guilford County.
With all of the county's 161 precincts reporting in unofficial results, the referendum failed with 69 percent voting no.
"Given the economic conditions of our state and our country, people aren't just positioned to support anything associated with the tax increase," said Anita Bachmann , coordinator of Citizens for a Better Guilford, the organization that promoted the tax.
Some headway was made on the sales tax in the Tuesday vote, but enough people were against the tax to see it fail again. The no-vote totaled 75 percent in the spring.
"Who needs another raise in prices for anything else?" Christine Clapp, 35, said about the tax as she went to vote Tuesday morning at Southeast Guilford Middle School.
After the referendum failed in the May 6 primary, the Board of Commissioners put it before voters again with a nonbinding promise to spend revenue on school construction projects. About $16 million was expected from the tax annually.
Contact Gerald Witt at 373-7008 or gerald.witt@news-record.com
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