Seeking our votes while bleeding us dry
The word “conservative” has been so misused and abused this campaign season it ought to be a crime. There are party primaries next week. Various and sundry scoundrels in DC and Raleigh have been telling us how they’ve been “fighting for” us. However, the numbers don’t seem to provide any evidence for that.
The GDP is a key indicator illustrating the health of an economy. The spending orgy rages on. No one is accepting any responsibility. They’re buying us all kinds of new, shiny “toys.” But our kids and grandkids are being stuck with the bill.
According to Money magazine, North Carolina has one of the highest gas taxes in the country. Considering the fact we have a $3.25 billion budget surplus — which means we have been overtaxed — and an allegedly conservative Republican supermajority in the General Assembly, one would think the “honorables” in Raleigh would consider giving us at least some temporary relief. (Not a chance.)
On the gas tax front, check out some of the company we’re keeping:
If all that hasn’t warmed your heart and made you feel all gosh-darned warm inside, consider this: FOOD is taking the biggest chunk out of our income in 30 years.
All of this information doesn’t necessarily mean you need to vote for the other party. Primaries are what we are facing right now. You can identify and vote for a candidate who has not been captivated or co-opted by the corruption in DC and Raleigh. Someone who remembers where they came from and what the people there are facing. Someone who actually considers how their friends and neighbors will be affected before they cast a vote.
With a shameful record like we’ve touched on here, NOBODY who is IN needs to STAY IN. This is not a D or R problem. It is about a lust for big government infecting our so-called leaders like a plague.
If they haven’t successfully addressed any of this in the terms they’ve served already, they don’t need ONE MORE. It’s time for someone else to take a stab at cleaning up the mess.
15% of 2.5 million is $375,000 for 14 months is $26,785 per month. How much do you make with your side gig?
Everybody calls themselves a “conservative” on the GOP side including many who are clearly NOT. One good statewide example is Jon Hardister running for Commissioner of Labor. He voted to repeal HB2, pass the Green New Deal, pass the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, and lots of other liberal things. Calling himself a “conservative” is a bald faced lie.
Or take Bob Brinson running for NC Senate in District 3 backed by Phil Berger and Jim Perry, which alone should tell you Brinson is no “conservative”. He is also being backed by the Chamber of Commerce, a left of center globalist group that backs open borders, but he tells you he is against illegal immigration (Really? Is that what he told the Chamber?). Brinson’s only voting record on taxes in a partial term on the New Bern City Council, was to RAISE them, but he sends out mailers saying he is a tax cutter. All of his mailers have “conservative” plastered all over them, but clearly he is not one. The situation just keeps getting worse with not being able to beleive a word that a politician tells you. You cannot even “trust but verify” any more. You have to just verify and when you do , many of them just don’t check out as honest.
Very well stated and totally accurate
cut all taxes on food and fuel, clothes to zero. You should not pay the government for the basics of life. to offset the “cost” tighten requirements for social programs so that those truly in need are they only ones getting aid. By which I mean you are destitute ( penniless with ZERO assets not even a stick of gum) and completely disabled ( can’t care for yourself in any way a drooling vegetable etc.)
This will do at least few things.
1. It will drive out all the fakers. They can go to Liberal states and get paid. I’m sure everyone will enjoy clean and clear street corners and highway on and off ramps. filled with people who are simply begging as a job since they obviously have income from somewhere else. Its everywhere now and I distinctly remember a time when this was not the case, and it all started with Obama when they basically allowed pretty much anyone to get on disability.
2. The program will be smaller and cost less which is a good thing.
3. It will make the state a bunch of heartless meanies and less moronic liberals will move here.
Sometimes you just need to reset. things to zero.