Resurrection of sales tax referendum gets mixed response from commissioners

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Resurrection of sales tax referendum gets mixed response from commissioners

Should voters be asked a FIFTH time about a 1/4-cent local option sales tax they have consistently turned down? Alamance County’s commissioners have two ways to deal with the county’s growing expenses. They can either pare back some of their existing outlays to make room for new ones. Or they can drum up some additional revenues to cover the costs. At the moment, the most straightforward way for the commissioners to expand their revenues is to i…