The cost of bigotry idiocy
If NC state Senator Jim Forrester had his way, North Carolina taxpayers would be over $5 million poorer this November.
As he does every legislative session, Senator Forrester filed a bill this past February to write discrimination into the state constitution -- even though marriage [...]
This should be a warning to any local government entity looking to invest taxpayers’ money in an entertainment venue. (Sorry Winston-Salem, too late for you.)
The Pontiac Silverdome —site of all those Thanksgiving Day football games —- has just been sold. The price: $583,000, after taxpayers spent $55 million [...]
After a seven-year effort, ridership in Cary’s C-Tran bus system remains miniscule and the cost to taxpayers is excessively high. This Position Paper from the Cary Watchmen looks at the facts and provides some recommendations for the future of public transportation in Cary. [...]
Media stories and political spin about government budget “cuts” often need a translator for taxpayers to understand the true picture. It’s common practice to label something a “cut” when in reality it simply means that government is spending less on something than it had previously hoped to spend – even [...]
So much for the spin that taxpayers will actually benefit after Dell repays city and county economic incentives used to lure the company to Forsyth County.
Give Forsyth commissioners credit for pondering a tax rebate, but the city’s media partner, the Winston-Salem Journal, pronounces any such rebate “negligible.” You [...]
Are you tired of unresponsive government? You may stand around and get counted like a dork, and maybe even talk to a legislator by joining the Taxpayers’ March on Raleigh this Saturday. Also, Senator Richard Burr will be in Asheville Thursday and Friday.
[...]The federal government continues to encourage irresponsibility. It wishes to redistribute earnings, confiscated from taxpayers too poor to hire accountants to find tax loopholes, to persons naïve enough to suppose if they can’t make a down payment on a house they will somehow be able to keep up with [...]
Newly-elected members of the Wake County School Board sent a promising signal to all Wake County taxpayers on Wednesday by demanding the current school board cease all work on the troubled Forest Ridge High School in northeastern Wake County (see article) .
Lack of local support and cost overruns have [...]
North Carolina taxpayers will be forced to subsidize an “immoral” company reaping “windfall profits.”
That’s the conclusion one could easily make in response to this announcement from the Governor’s office showing Gov. Perdue’s continued commitment to further politicize our economy.
Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that Fiserv Inc., (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global [...]
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines has received a letter from Dell VP Kip Thompson confirming the amounts owed to each entity to be repaid by the computer company. Yippee.
I’m not sure taxpayers should be comforted when Joines says the payback —– down to about $9 million after the city pays [...]
In what has to be seen as a somewhat bizarre and highly questionable decision, the NC DOT has decided to continue with its plans to expand a Winston-Salem road that leads to the soon to be empty Dell manufacturing plant. From today’s W-S Journal:
Even though Dell said earlier this [...]
