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• Vote "𝐍𝐎" on November 3rd on the "1% Sales Tax" question. 🔴 Sales Taxes hit poor, lower income and working class families the hardest ( ~ Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy) 🔴 Half of U.S. households couldn't make ends meet in 2024. Even a small annual hike in expenses would leave another 3 million households unable to meet their basic financial obligations ( ~ Brookings Institution) 🔴 "Local Sales taxes target the poor and widen the income gap" ( ~ Bloomberg) =================

  11 October 2026 · York County Citizens Forum · $4–4.5K · 300K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Who would pay the additional 1% sales tax? Those who can afford it the LEAST, including: 🔴 Single mothers 🔴 Seniors on fixed incomes Sales taxes are brutally regressive, hurting the lowest earners the worst. The bottom 20% of earners pays the largest percentage of their income in sales taxes. =========================================== ❌ 𝐀 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐗 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐈𝐓 =========================================== Take

  24 October 2026 · York County Citizens Forum · $2–2.5K · 125K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Don't be extorted by your government into thinking you have to choose one tax increase over another. There IS a better choice. 🔴 Vote "𝐍𝐎" on November 3rd on the "1% Sales Tax" question. 🔴 Demand 𝐍𝐎 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐀𝐗 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒 🔴 Tell the School Board to 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 - just like we all have to do 🔴 Insist on a 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 capital improvement plan for schools - we can't always have everything we want all at once 🔴 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞

  12 October 2026 · York County Citizens Forum · $2–2.5K · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• 62% of Peninsula households with children can't afford food. ** 𝟔𝟐% !! ** The findings of the Virginia Hunger Study were released Wednesday in Norfolk, alongside leaders from the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore and the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank * How on earth can these struggling families absorb ANY new tax? 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑡: They can't! 🔴 Vote "𝐍𝐎" on or before November 3rd on the "1% Sales Tax" question. 🔴 Get a FREE "No More Taxes" sign for your yard at:

  2 October 2026 · York County Citizens Forum · $1.5–2K · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• If they're only telling you half of the story, are they really telling you the truth? Only two types of "essential" personal hygiene items are exempt from sales tax under state law. Two. Incontinence products and tampons/pads. Everything else? Full sales tax. Soap. Shampoo. Razors. Toothbrushes. Toothpaste. Deoderant. Body Wash. Cleaning Supplies. Baby Powder. Everything most people would consider personal hygiene products and even "essential" personal hygiene products (aren't soap, sham

  15 October 2026 · York County Citizens Forum · $600 – $699 · 30K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library