Tag: gas tax

Gas taxes: We’re #10! (nationally)

Posted on August 3, 2018August 4, 2018 by Brant Clifton

As campaign season gears up, we’re hearing all about this tax being cut and that tax being cut. But one place we can’t seem to get any relief is at

What’s in your wallet? (Gov. Pat wants it)

Posted on April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our reportedly Republican governor wants a $2.8 billion bond referendum on the ballot in November. Bond referendums — in case you didn’t know — are votes on whether to allow

#ncga: Making deals — with the devil

Posted on April 5, 2015April 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Well, the GOP has officially surrendered their advantage in the area of taxes. After so many decades as the low – / anti-tax party, the GOP majority on Jones Street

#NCGA: Speaker’s team issues talking points to help spin NC Competes Act & gas tax hike

Posted on March 7, 2015March 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our cadre of spies on Jones Street has struck pay-dirt once again. We have in our clutches a March 6 email authored by Mollie Young, House Speaker Tim Moore’s director of communications. The

#ncga: More gas tax for US, and NO gas tax for airlines

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Talk about great big ones. The same guy who wants us all to pay more for gas in our cars wants to let airliners with a presence in North Carolina

#ncga: How to deal with road construction $$$ “woes”? STOP ROBBING THE HIGHWAY FUND.

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Some of the honorables on Jones Street — aided and abetted by the drive by media — are still pushing that myth about how cash-starved the state is for road

Steve Forbes ON THE MONEY in re: gas tax

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In Washington, we have REPUBLICANS seriously considering raising the federal gas tax. In Raleigh, we’ve had Republicans actually push a gas tax hike through the state Senate. One of the

Ol’ Rob: Missing the action or just plain Mis-leading ????

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Rob Christensen has been hanging out in Raleigh watching the political action for a loooooooong time. (Sources tell me he once had to flee town just minutes before General Sherman’s

#ncga: Pay raises for Speaker Moore’s staff. A gas tax hike for US.

Posted on February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys gave us a peek at the salaries of all of new House speaker Tim Moore’s staff. Most staffers got raises in the ballpark of twenty percent. One

#ncga: Things looking rather dicey in House for NC Chamber’s gas tax hike

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our sources in the lower chamber on Jones Street tell us that the vote on the gas tax hike / ”revenue stabilization” nonsense that passed the GOP-dominated Senate with flying