Tag: gas tax

Watch Your Wallet: Gas Tax Fever is going around

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

As gas prices start creeping back down to more sane levels, people are buying more gas and doing more driving. That phenomenon has inspired “honorables” on both sides of the

The GOP’s Keynesian Kumbaya

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

John Maynard Keynes is looking up, and smiling lovingly, from his special place in Hell. The British economist is the DADDY of the twisted concept that it is the government’s

NC STILL paying through the nose for gas. (But there’s NO MONEY for roads?)

Posted on September 20, 2014September 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis and Skip Stam are pushing for toll roads and lanes throughout the state — claiming that those concepts are the only way to pay for road construction and

Virginia is for (gas)Tax-Cutters

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Well, the NC General Assembly is seriously considering jacking up unemployment taxes across The Tar Heel State. Meanwhile, The Commonwealth of Virginia is seriously contemplating

Have we lost The John Locke Foundation?

Posted on June 14, 2012October 20, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation has, for years, positioned itself as Ground Zero for conservative and libertarian thought in North Carolina. For years, we on The Right have

TVs on death row. Really? Seriously ???

Posted on May 16, 2012May 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Watch your wallets. The North Carolina General Assembly is back in town. The state’s economy is in freefall. We’ve got an outrageously high gas tax. And what are the honorables

Bev’s tax “deal” really 3-card monte scam taking NC taxpayers for a ride

Posted on May 12, 2012May 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Gov. Bev Perdue and GOP agree on gas tax — Raleigh News & Observer headline, May 11 2012 So, Lame Duck Bev’s steno pool in the N&O newsroom want us

GOP candidate for NC Senate in Guilford picks up the tab for strapped drivers

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Trudy Wade, a Republican member of the Greensboro City Council, is running to represent the Greensboro area in the NCGA’s upper chamber. She and her volunteers sponsored and manned

More proof the politicians are GOUGING us at the gas pump

Posted on March 25, 2012March 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The American Petroleum Institute has prepared an eye-opening briefing on the total tax burden — by state — drivers are dealing with at the gas pumps. According to API,

The (REAL?) story on the NCGA gas tax relief #FAIL: ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes’

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’ve vented our frustrations repeatedly on this site about North Carolina’s obscenely high gas tax. With gas prices skyrocketing, the economy tanking, and the unemployment rate