Flashback: Most Senate Democrats Rejected Perdue Tax Plan

Nearly 85 percent of the state senators in Gov. Perdue’s party voted against her plan to raise taxes on all North Carolinians last year.

In June, the Senate voted on an amendment to the bipartisan state budget that would have raised taxes by more than $750 million – the same as Perdue’s latest tax increase proposal. It failed, 47-3.

“The fact that so many in Gov. Perdue’s own party aren’t sold on her plan just reinforces what a bad idea this is,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Rockingham). “It’s another reason the governor should publicly defend raising taxes in this economy. I hope she will reconsider a debate, and let the people of North Carolina hear an honest, open discussion.”

Berger called on Perdue Tuesday to publicly debate her plan, since the sales tax has dominated North Carolina politics for the past two years. The governor refused.

This is the second time in less than a year that Gov. Perdue has proposed raising taxes by more than $750 million. When she raised the sales tax two years ago, Gov. Perdue promised it was a temporary increase that would end in 2011. But she pushed last summer to raise it again, and vetoed the General Assembly’s budget because it didn’t include tax increases.

Links: Senate vote on the budget amendment to raise the sales tax:

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