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Orange County Sales Tax Survey, 2008 <br />Final Questionnaire <br />30 January 2008 <br />Q4. What would your reasons be for voting "no" on the land transfer tax? (DO NOT READ <br />LIST; SELECT ALL THAT APPLY) <br />1. Cost to taxpayers / Taxes are too high already <br />2. Housing prices are already too high <br />3. Housing market is bad <br />4. Don't want to pay that much when I sell a home <br />5. Don't believe the funds will be spent wisely <br />6. General uncertainty of the economy/recession <br />7. Other [SPECIFY]: <br />Q5. Under North Carolina law, even if the voters pass both of these tax proposals, the County <br />could levy only one: EITHER the sales tax increase, OR the land transfer tax, BUT NOT BOTH. <br />Regardless of how you would vote on these proposals, if you HAD to choose between theirs, <br />which one would you rather see enacted-the one-quarter of 1% sales tax increase on non-food <br />items, OR the four-tenths of 1 % land transfer tax paid by sellers of real estate? <br />1. Sales tax <br />2. Land transfer tax <br />3. No real preference/DK/Not Sure <br />4. Refused to select either/NA <br />Local Media Usage <br />Q6. OTHER THAN talking with your friends and family, can you tell me any sources of <br />LOCAL news and information you use REGULARLY? That includes newspapers, local TV or <br />radio news, and web sites that cover local affairs. (RECORD VERBATIM. PROBE FOR <br />ADDITIONAL SOURCES:) Anything else? <br />Demographics <br />D 1 INTRO. Now I have a few final questions just for statistical purposes. Again, your answers <br />will be kept strictly confidential <br />Dl. First, do you own or rent your home? <br />1. Own <br />2. Rent <br />3. DK/NA/Refused <br />Drafted by Hertzog Research, LLC -5-