MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — With less than a month until Election Day, Action NC is ramping up efforts to get neighbors to vote no on the one-cent sales tax referendum to expand transportation.

The organization believes the one-cent tax is a regressive tax that burdens low-income neighbors.

"If you're on a lower income scale, they're saying $111 a year. Now it's not just the income that you're paying. That's bad because on top of cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, everything that we were already facing in our neighborhood, it's not ideal, but it's not a deal-changer," Action NC organizer Robert Dawkins.

Organizers don't want a plan passed until ridership numbers prove the expansion is needed, along with transportation plans for the future, and not just the present.

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