Why cut spending when you can just holler for Mo’ Money?
We thought we saw the shape of things to come in that Revenue Laws Committee meeting on Jones Street earlier this week. The meeting featured a presentation from the UNC
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We’re #16 !!! (Um, YAY ?)
The right-leaning Tax Foundation has released its national rankings of the various states’ economic climate. According to the group, North Carolina has moved from an overall ranking of 44th out
Continue readingWe are the government. We know better than you. Shut up. Sit down.
Haywood County is a quiet little place off the beaten path in western North Carolina. But a lively group of grassroots activists is raising a ruckus that has the political
Continue readingNC STILL paying through the nose for gas. (But there’s NO MONEY for roads?)
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
Continue readingBoy, this ObamaCare is working out, um, *SWELL*
An $8 billion tax on health insurers is due September 30, and the drive-bys are just starting to realize this ObamaCare ca-ca is going to be an expensive nightmare: […] States
Continue readingThoughts on statists, taxes and, um, PATRIOTISM ????
On the surface, it’s heart-warming to hear statists celebrating the concept of patriotism. Of course, their idea of patriotism and MINE appear to be vastly divergent. I think of Old
Continue reading#NCGA: Thom The Therrible going all gangsta on his own troops?
Not giving the speaker what he wants is now akin to party disloyalty. If the powers-that-be in the North Carolina House have their way, that will be absolutely true. We
Continue reading#NCGA: WWThD (What Will Thom Do?)
The North Carolina Senate has voted to send one heck of a hot potato over to the NC House. The economic development package creates a new method for handing out
Continue readingMonkey 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
Continue readingMonkey Business Report: Super-Secret CharMeck TAX INCREASE meeting ?
Mecklenburg County commissioners are floating the idea of a property tax increase to help fund pay increases for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) teachers. Emails we obtained appear to indicate that
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