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THE WEALTH Drying up Proposed Sales Tax Bill Could Unite in Budget Urban, Rural Counties in N.C ‘HE HAS A FEEL FOR THE Today’s weather SPEED OF THE GAME’ Mild to moderate Inside Bentley Spain, a sophomore offensive back sweat. PLAYING SACRED MUSIC lineman, might surprise you when H 85, L 64 UNC senior and DTH reporter Eric you ask him what he aspires to do one Surber drives to Duke University six day: He hopes to be a NASCAR driver, Thursday’s weather mornings a week to practice playing as he notes in his GoHeels profile. Partly cloudy. the organ. See page 3. See page 5. H 84, L 65 Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 Volume 123, Issue 60 dailytarheel.com Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Driver’s $ SPREAD ed funds THE WEALTH drying up Proposed sales tax bill could unite in budget urban, rural counties in N.C. Many N.C. public school By Charles Talcott The current scheme has segmented Senior Writer the state, providing huge advantages to districts have suspended booming urban areas while neglecting A bill in the N.C. leg- other counties, Brown said. the teaching program. islature could real- Wake County receives $145 million locate hundreds of from sales tax revenue annually, com- By Corey Risinger DTH/JUN CHOU millions of dollars pared with nearby Warren County’s Assistant State & National Editor from urban retail $2.4 million, Brown said. Likewise, centers like Chapel Mecklenburg County receives $193 mil- Shelby High School Principal Hill to rural communi- lion, while neighboring Anson County David Allen has watched a dwin- ties — and it has elicited criticism from receives $2.8 million, he said. dling number of student drivers both sides of the aisle. “In fact, the current system has pull into his school since North The N.C. House of Representatives allowed Mecklenburg County to receive Carolina reduced its funding for Show me the money: Urban centers see most sales voted overwhelmingly against the eco- more sales tax revenue than (more driver’s education in 2012. In June, the state’s ve highest tax-grossing counties received nearly half of all sales tax revenue. nomic development bill — commonly than) 50 of our least prosperous coun- Now, as the North Carolina A new sales tax redistribution system would spread revenue equally among all 100 counties. known as the N.C. Competes Act — dur- ties combined,” Brown said. “That’s just legislature threatens to defund the program, dozens of the Gross collection by all 100 counties in June: $469,776,841 ing a concurrence meeting Aug. 19, but not right.” the debate is far from over. The current debate about sales tax state’s public school districts While the N.C. House drafted the bill redistribution can be traced to 2007, have slammed the brakes — to include Gov. Pat McCrory’s economic when rural counties sought relief from leaving tens of thousands of Top ve counties initiatives, the N.C. Senate added a con- Medicaid expenses. To relieve this bur- students without a course to (Mecklenburg, Wake, troversial provision to shift sales tax rev- den, North Carolina assumed financial earn their permit. Guilford, Durham, The N.C. House’s budget Forsyth) enues to lagging, largely rural counties. responsibility for Medicaid in exchange “I think this is one of the most for a half-percent of sales tax revenues. proposal would allocate fund- important bills we will see this session,” The legislature also divided another two ing for driver’s education, but Gross collection by top ve counties: 43 percent ($202,086,883) Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown, percent among the counties based pri- the N.C. Senate has proposed R-Onslow, said at a March press confer- marily on location of sale and, to a lesser an alternative budget that lacks Gross collection by other 95 counties: 57 percent ($267,689,958) ence when he unveiled the tax redistri- funding for the program. SOURCE: N.C. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE DTH/JOSE VALLE, BRADLEY SAACKS bution plan. SEE SALES TAX, PAGE 4 Allen, whose son writes for The Daily Tar Heel, said Shelby — which offered free and reduced lunch to 62.7 percent of the student body in 2013-14 — Duke’s national strife over summer read saw significant drops in enroll- Pharmacy in ment when it charged $38 per student for the course to com- A freshman refused the book, pensate for lower state contribu- tions after the 2012 cuts. Public Student Stores citing his religious views on sex. high schools across the state received more than $26 million By Ryan Schocket in 2013-14 to offer a subsidized Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor driver’s education program. to open late fall The school lost a demograph- Duke University freshmen aren’t read- ic of students who took driver’s tionship between the text- ing this year’s summer reading book, “Fun education for the experience, The Campus Health book and school supply shop Home,” and it’s not because it’s optional. not for the promise of a license satellite location will and the pharmacy, which will Opposition to Alison Bechdel’s New when they turned 16, Allen said. all share the third floor of the York Times best-selling graphic novel But without the required liabili- use the third floor. building. started after Duke freshman Brian Grasso ty insurance necessary to receive “I have not recognized any posted on the school’s class of 2019 their permit anyway, these stu- By Blake Hoarty cons in this deal so far. It’s Facebook page: “I feel as if I would have dents have little incentive to pay Staff Writer been an extremely smooth to compromise my personal Christian higher rates at their school or process; it’s an additional moral beliefs to read it.” for private instruction. Campus Health Services service to offer to students on It was the graphic illustration of two “To me, it doesn’t matter if we will open a pharmacy on the campus,” Gorsuch said. women engaging in oral sex and the depic- charge $38 or $138. Those kids third floor of Student Stores “I think the people com- tion of a woman masturbating that offend- are not going to pay it,” he said. later this semester. ing to buy their books will ed Grasso more than the acts themselves. A former driver’s education “The reason we’re building see the pharmacy, and that Eventually, his protest became a trend- teacher himself, Allen has seen it is to try and be more conve- will help the pharmacy sales. ing topic on Facebook and a national his share of emergency brake nient for students and to try And people coming up to buy debate. situations in behind-the-wheel and be convenient for faculty their pharmaceuticals will Grasso said he believed the selection instruction. He said without the and staff,” said Amy Sauls, help the supply sales right process for the summer reading book dis- six hours of supervised driving pharmacy director of Campus next to it.” criminated against religious people. “I feel as if I would have to time and six hours of observation Health Services. This new pharmacy is not “They talk a lot about challenging ideas included in driver’s ed, students “We want them to be able the only location outside the and challenging beliefs at orientation, but compromise my personal might be at a serious disadvan- to fill their prescriptions Campus Health building really the only people who are challenged Christian moral beliefs…” tage when they get on the road. there as well. I think it will where students can pick up here are religious people,” he said. “There were a number of benefit both the faculty prescriptions; pickup is also Frank Baumgartner, a UNC political Brian Grasso, students who on the first day of and the students to have a available at the Walgreens science professor and the chairman of Duke freshman who opposed explicit summer reading behind-the-wheel training were location that is central on and CVS on Franklin Street. UNC’s summer reading selection board, not prepared to be on the roads campus.” Sauls was confident local disagrees with Grasso. thinks that the message is malleable. at all,” he said. The new pharmacy will competition would not be a “There’s a list of all the previous books “I don’t think you have to read some - N.C. Sen. Ralph Hise, be a satellite location for problem. that have been used, and a lot of them are thing to believe it,” she said. “Read it R-Mitchell, aimed to alleviate the pharmacy currently “I think there is probably not like ‘The Cat in the Hat,’” he said. and let it reaffirm your already existing the state’s financial restraints by located in the basement enough business for anyone. “They’re going be books that are going beliefs.” proposing a driver’s ed test that of Campus Health in the We’re not going to be located to push some buttons and make people Grasso said he will look away in future would substitute the state-fund- James A. Taylor Building, on Franklin Street, and think. Whenever you do that, you’re going classes that might feature explicit images ed program: Students would which is near Kenan we’re a part of campus and to have some people who are displeased.” or films. only have to score 85 percent Memorial Stadium and UNC Campus Health Services,” The controversy has made an impact in “It’s a matter of holding to your per - on a written test that could be Hospitals. she said. the Triangle. spective. If people don’t hold to their taken without any prior class.
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