The NC Senate passed its temporary, one-year moratorium on property tax increases due to revaluations yesterday. That is intended to give the General Assembly time to get a constitutional amendment passed to limit property tax increases. This issue was made more urgent with the massive increases in property valuations placing many North Carolina homeowners at risk of concomitant property tax increases.
But two local socialist legislators opposed the move– Michael Garrett and Gladys Robinson. The News and Record reports:
They said the bill “would tie the hands of the local elected officials closest to our families, the commissioners, the school board members, the leaders our neighbors actually know, at exactly the moment they need flexibility to respond.”
In other words, these socialists believe showering local government with more taxpayers’ money is so urgently imperative that it overrides protecting citizens from massive tax increases.
What is the definition of a skunk? A scoundrel?
This is a wonderful example of representative government working as it was intended .
Take that Skip !
Yes, Fred. I hope the House passes the bill also. Then the question would be whether Stein will sign it.