DeacHawk
Punishingly Intricate
Not to mention that the Wake County taxes are in addition to city taxes, which are not an issue in unincorporated areas of Granville, Johnston, Franklin and Chatham County. Just ignore an entire sovereign to make the facts fit your conclusion. Help yourself. But again, if you don't think that people vote against poorly run government with their feet, keep being surprised when it happens again and again.
I'm sure there are some people that move elsewhere when they are unhappy with poorly run government. Is Wake County poorly run? I don't know much about the specifics. I wouldn't call floating a tax increase in a joint meeting with the school board in January as poorly run. Hell, budget requests aren't even in from departments yet and I doubt they have much on revenue projections on property and sales tax other than preliminary stuff. Now, if the budget process goes through and cuts are never considered and taxes are raised, then you may have a reason to be upset.
I'd argue that many people don't vote with their feet by moving, but rather voting in the next election. Didn't the Board just switch majorities? Were voters unhappy with the previous group running the County?
I'd also argue that if I am in a city and paying city and county taxes (and receiving city and county services), than it's going to take more than one entity messing up to cause me to move. Plus, maybe I like city services and don't want to live in the unincorporated areas in the surrounding counties. Maybe their school systems suck and I have kids and want to keep them in the better system, even if I hate the decisions made at the local level.
Finally, if people are moving out of the area due to the way the county is run, I doubt it's enough to make much of a difference. Wake County is one of the fastest growing counties in the state so I'm sure for every person leaving, there are others coming in to buy property and pay taxes.
Anyway, too long, didn't read but I'd wait until the budget process sees its way through to May/June before drawing conclusions on the Wake County Board of Commissioners not considering all options when balancing the FY 16 budget.