Tag: taxes

Hey, Pinehurst: Here comes the John Strickland Tax Increase!

Posted on December 28, 2019December 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I For years, he’s huddled in the back of the village council meeting room organizing his minions. John Strickland couldn’t win his last election, so he was going

Richard Burr can’t disappear off the radar fast enough.

Posted on October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I swear. Our two US senators are in a neck-and-neck race to the bottom. Richard Burr knows he’s not running again — or is at least safe for another

#ncpol: DUMB -DA-DUMB-DUMB

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

There’s nothing like having someone young enough to be your daughter, with 1/100th the life experience and 1/1000th the business experience, tell you that what you’re saying is dumb.

#ncga: Seriously. HOW is this good news?

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Exhibit A: That is Speaker Timmy’s chief spokesman cheering the “over-collection” of revenue by the state to the tune of $700M. Now here’s Speaker Timmy doing the same

#ncga: They came for your mopeds. They came for your grass clippings. NOW they want your kid’s bike.

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The remnants of the ‘conservative revolution’ in Raleigh sure are sounding a lot like the flaming bags of poo we threw out in 2010. There must be something about

Tax rate reductions? Nice. (Now, WHERE are the spending cuts?)

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Republicans in Raleigh are singing the praises of themselves for great big “tax cuts.” That’s a good thing to allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money. But politicians

#ncpol: Jones and taxes.

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Brant Clifton

When news broke that Walter Jones was one of thirteen Republicans to vote NO on the hallowed tax package pushed through the House by Paul Ryan and the boys,

Pinehurst Matters? (Yeah, but so does THE TRUTH.)

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Brant Clifton

There’s a small, but loud group of people making quite a commotion about this year’s village council races in Pinehurst. They really, really, really don’t like Mayor Fiorillo (aka Queen

Analysis: Keeping ObamaCare taxes in place will hit American wallets hard starting in 2018

Posted on August 12, 2017August 12, 2017 by Brant Clifton

The DC GOPe has seriously dropped the ball on repealing ObamaCare — THE ISSUE that gave them their current majorities. There have actually been reports that congressional Republicans want to

GOPe keeping ObamaCare taxes, too.

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Brant Clifton

We heard earlier from Rand Paul about his disgust over his colleagues’s ObamaCare hijinks. Now comes word, via The Wall Street Journal, that Senate Republicans are A-OKAY with the taxes