• Research Report

    Robeson County’s Vote to Increase the Sales Tax: Would you buy a used car from these guys?

    posted July 27, 2010 by Cameron Lambe, Joseph Coletti, Dr. Michael Sanera
    Robeson County officials want a quarter-cent sales tax hike and promise a two-cent reduction in the property tax rate. The net effect would be like a two-cent property tax hike, since the sales tax increases would bring in an additional $2.3 million a year, while the reduction in property tax revenues would be only $1.2 million. Robeson County taxpayers have already been hit with a two-cent tax increase with revaluation, so a vote to approve the sales-tax hike would mean a $2.3 million tax increase from last year.
  • Research Report

    Money to Burn: New Hanover County’s WASTEC Incinerator

    posted March 19, 2006 by Joseph Coletti
    New Hanover County’s waste-to-energy incinerator (WASTEC) was built in 1984 to extend the life of the county landfill and also to make money from selling the energy it generated. The incinerator was never able to make money, relying instead on subsidies from the landfill and a higher tipping fee. New technologies and competition have made this costly option obsolete.
  • Press Release

    Dump the New Hanover Incinerator

    posted March 19, 2006
    RALEIGH – It’s time for New Hanover County to close the only municipal solid waste incinerator left in the state. That’s the key finding in a new John Locke Foundation…

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