Rep. Jason Saine (R-Lincoln) highlighted an article criticizing past Democratic tax policies. | Photo Courtesy of Jason Saine Facebook
Rep. Jason Saine (R-Lincoln) highlighted an article criticizing past Democratic tax policies. | Photo Courtesy of Jason Saine Facebook
State Rep. Jason Saine (R-Lincoln) shared a Civitas Institute piece looking at some of the harder-hitting tax increases voted in when Democrats controlled the North Carolina General Assembly.
"Tax cuts since 2011, enacted under the Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly, have helped families and middle-class folks all across our state," Saine wrote in an Oct. 19 Facebook post. "Remember when the previous majority was in power, and the 'temporary' tax hikes they imposed."
The article and Saine's response come just days before the November 2020 elections, which has tight races for high-profile races, including the U.S. Senate.
Saine is also up for reelection against Democratic challenger Greg McBryde.
According to the Civitas Institute's reporting, over the past three decades, Democrat-controlled General Assemblies have approved at least 10 major tax increases that affected middle-class households.
The temporary sales tax was first passed in 2001, raising the rate from 4% to 4.5%, with the promise it would return to 4% in 2003, Civitas reported. Yet, the Democrat-controlled General Assembly extended the rate twice, in 2003 and again in 2005.
By 2007, the pretense was gone, and the Democrat-controlled General Assembly made the increase permanent, Civitas reported.
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