Tag: taxes

What ever happened to CUTTING taxes AND cutting SPENDING ???

Posted on December 20, 2012December 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Politicians in Raleigh and DC, aided and abetted by our oft-clueless media, are railing about how the only way to fix our economic mess is to get the ‘guv-mint’

Congressional GOP leaders A-OK with trashing the economy HALF as bad as Obama

Posted on December 4, 2012December 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

What does it mean to be Republican? Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater established the national party as a force for shrinking government and cutting taxes. From 1994-2006, the

AFTER the election, GOP thinks tax increases are A-OK

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Now that the smoke has cleared — and they are safe from the voters’ wrath for at least two more years — Republicans in Raleigh and Washington appear ready to

Boehner: waving the white flag BEFORE the shooting starts

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Prior to Tuesday’s vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid emphatically told the media that he and his crew in the Senate WOULD NOT work with a

Media trying to bail out Walter Dalton

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s been looking pretty bleak for Democrat gubernatorial nominee Walter Dalton. The average of current polling shows him losing by 12 to GOP nominee Pat McCrory. Dalton served in

Is THIS what we’re going with? Really?

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It seems the NCGOP and the McCrory campaign are going after Walter Dalton on the tax issue. The GOP campaign is taking the Lt. Governor to task for his

Walter Dalton & Barry Obama: bureaucratic parasites, economic gurus

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I find it absolutely amazing that someone who has spent their WHOLE adult life on the government payroll could have the gall to portray themselves as an expert on what’s

N&O: High taxes NO BIG DEAL

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, The Ol’ Reliable has started up their fact-check series on political ads. And the first victim is an ad by the Republican Governors Association:

Raise taxes on us? How about getting Bev to DO HER JOB FIRST????

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our Nobel Prize-winning, Pulitzer prize-contending local paper here in Moore County is at it again — parroting the leftist views of its owners and making their

GOP congressman drinks Occupy / Democrat kool-aid on taxing “the rich”

Posted on March 15, 2012March 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

AAAARRRRGH. (*That’s my frustration noise.*) We handed these Republicans a gift in 2010, gave them a mandate and specific instructions on how to proceed,