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Sales tax expansion coupled with income tax cuts for the wealthiest amounts to a tax shift asking working families to pay more than their fair share and allowing wealthy individuals and corporations to pay less.

Over the next month, NC MomsRising, a Together NC partner, will host action events around the state to remind our communities and leaders that investing in kids means investing in NC’s future.

NC Senate and House tax shift plans aren’t real tax reform and don’t chart a path to economic recovery. We’ve got some ideas on what those changes should look like.

New polling shows strong opposition towards tax shift proposals like those introduced in the NC House and Senate.

In recent years, North Carolina has abandoned its commitment to adequately funding our schools. Now is the time to renew it. Sign our pledge and share your back to school stories with us.

Education must be a cornerstone of North Carolina’s long-term economic development plan, but declining investments in public education are affecting our kids’ classrooms. Read more and download our STATE BUDGET TOOLKIT here.

A huge THANK YOU to the more than 100 of you that participated in the first annual Backwards Budget .5k! Here’s to hoping we don’t have to do it again next year…

On Tax Day 2012, Together NC asked people to imagine what “A Day Without Government” would look like in North Carolina: no public schools, no traffic lights, no restaurant sanitation ratings…no UNC basketball. The simple truth is that public funds support the basic building blocks of civilization, investments that keep us all safer, happier and healthier. Take a moment today to think about what your tax dollars pay for and (more…)

Leading up to Tax Day, we at Together NC enlisted Russell the Hound to sniff out examples of the public investments, like the Eno River State Park, that make North Carolina great.