Cities, counties, special purpose districts and mass transit authorities can add on at least 2% more. The sales tax virtually everywhere in the state is at 8.25%.

is 9%. California state rate is 7.5%

there are exemption in poorer cities, there are exemptions on clothes on certain holidays like back to school time. and necessities beyond food are exempt. Plus there is a luxury tax on high priced items like yachts. So it does not fall so much on the poor.

Movies, plays, non profit fund raising events are just a few examples of the new "taxes" the #NCGA now has us paying. Refused Medicaid expansion. Railroading education. Extremely limiting access to safe legal abortion and birth control. All part of the ALEC plan, forty years in the making. They want to nickel and dime us to death as they are squeezing the life out of us.