Huffington Post: Koch Brothers Group Holds Complete Opposite of Moral Mondays Protest

By Samantha Lachman, May 29, 2014

Local conservatives defended the actions of the Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly with a “tax reform rally” on Wednesday touting the legislature’s accomplishments.

The North Carolina chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, held an event in Raleigh billed as a celebration of legislation passed by the assembly last year that overhauled the state’s tax regime.

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North Carolina families with annual incomes below $84,000 will on average see higher taxes when the bill’s impact is combined with the legislature’s elimination of the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit and increased sales taxes, according to data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the North Carolina Justice Center.

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