Monkey Business Report: NC’s e-cig tax
We posted previously about the General Assembly’s vote to enact a tax on e-cigarettes. E-cigs are a relatively new phenomenon. They are devices that emit odorless vapor instead of that
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We’re not in Raleigh anymore: #NCSEN race sounding a lot like one for #NCGA
The last six years in DC has offered a treasure trove of ammunition for conservatives seeking to ”take out the trash” in our nation’s capital. Barry Obama has wrecked our
Continue readingPat sounds like Bev.
In 2012, Bev Perdue came to the conclusion that she had enough of a GOP majority on Jones Street and escaped Raleigh to the safe confines of Harvard’s Kennedy School
Continue reading#NCGA: McCrory, Tillis, media gang up on Senate Republicans in budget fight
In budget reconciliation talks, the Senate has backed away from their insistence on dropping teacher tenure in exchange for pay raises. Smelling blood, Gov. Pat, Speaker Thom, and the drive-by
Continue readingPlenty of money for statist nonsense. Not enough for stuff govt is actually supposed to pay for.
In Charlotte and Raleigh, leaders are trying to raise property taxes in order to finance teacher pay raises. There is NO money available right now to pay for those raises,
Continue readingTharte. Thillis. Tholl Roads. Thwenty dollars round-trip DAILY. Throuble?
Toll roads. House speaker and US Senate Thom Tillis thinks they are OK. So does state House speaker pro tem Skip Stam. Gov. Pat likes them, and so does his
Continue readingMonkey Business Report: NC DENR and the Sea Level Study
We posted earlier about a little kerfluffle going on within Gov. Pat’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources. It appears that some radical environmentalists nested tightly within the bureaucracy are bullying
Continue readingBOHICA: $tuff is getting even MORE expen$ive
Today, we’re celebrating the birth of our nation — which began with resistance to bureaucratic tyranny and protests against excessive taxation. Here we are in 2014. As we’re firing
Continue readingMonkey Business Report: Special Tholl Road edition
The news about how the proposed I-77 toll lanes will cost $20 per day round trip — plus word about the Spanish contractor’s woes — has whipped up quite a
Continue reading#NCPOL: Gov Pat forced to lay in the bed he made
It’s pretty clear — from the background conversations I am having — that things are a bit frosty between the governor’s office and many of the Republican honorables on Jones Street. A
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