Tag: taxes

#ncga: Tax ALL the things!

Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Check out this doozy in the latest version of the budget, H.97, being kicked around Jones Street (p.491, lines 8-9): […] A privilege tax is imposed on a retailer engaged

#ncga: A tax for YOU! One for YOU! And one for YOU!

Posted on April 15, 2015April 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A Lincoln County Republican legislator has introduced legislation allowing local politicians a little more leeway to raise taxes. Let’s look at Rep. Jason Saine’s HB 903: A BILL TO BE

#ncga: ‘Conservative Revolution’ keeps feeding the beast. (We think it needs a crash diet.)

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

Gas taxes are going up. We’re getting retroactively hit for deductions on previous year’s tax returns. They’re trying to get us to take on BILLIONS more in debt. (Wait. I

#ncpol: Blurring the lines. Surrendering while you’re ahead. (Trying to go back to the political wilderness?)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I never thought I’d see the Democrat Party actually be able to get to the right of Republicans on taxes. But state Democrats are doing that to GOP legislators AND

#ncga: A most welcome piece of bipartisanship

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I usually shudder when I hear chirping about bipartisanship. It typically means Republicans caving in to the Democrat agenda. But I’m here to tell you about an example that took

When is a tax cut NOT REALLY a tax cut?

Posted on March 12, 2015March 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Answer: When you lower the rate, but monkey with the value of what is getting taxed. This kind of thing happens a lot at the local level. Your county

#ncga: GOP leaders passing stuff with Democrat votes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In Washington, House speaker John Boehner has shown he has no issue with pushing legislation that flies in the face of the GOP platform and needs Democrat votes in order

#ncga: An ORGY of taxing & spending breaks out amid the ‘conservative revolution’

Posted on February 25, 2015February 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It seems the folks on Jones Street have kicked off one heck of an orgy — apparently in honor of the box office success of ’50 Shades of Grey.’ Let’s

#ncga: Instead of tax hikes & corporate welfare, why not tax reform?

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Proponents of state ”economic incentives” and the so-called “gas tax cut” claim that we need to enact all of this in order to stay competitive with our neighbors. The really

#ncga: Gas tax hike for US. Tax breaks for airlines & data centers.

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Legislators are spinning us that a lot of road work needs to be done statewide, but there just isn’t enough money out there to do it. So, they are selling