To the editor:
In your front-page article last week about Greensboro’s proposed 1% local option tax [Ed. Note: hardwickgazette.org/2025/11/18/reactions-mixed-on-1-local-option-tax/] your reference to some of my earlier comments on FPF were significantly misleading. The way your article reads made it sound like my strong desire to support long-term rentals (and discourage short-term ones) had led me to support the 1% tax as proposed: i.e., to apply to prepared meals and served alcohol in addition to rentals.
In my FPF remarks I never mentioned any desire to add taxation for the meals and alcohol.
I, in fact, agree with Shaun Hill’s opposition to subjecting those services to a new tax. My remarks in FPF were only about seeking to encourage long-term rentals, and to discourage short term rentals, like Airbnbs.
And, if any new tax is to be adopted (along the lines of the local options tax proposal) I would support that on the short-term rentals only, not on prepared meals and served alcohol.
Thanks for including this clarification.
Nancy Riege
Greensboro
