Readers are aware that Skip Alston and his cronies are getting ready to increase our taxes. The only question is how severe the increase will be. To facilitate their tax increase, the News and Record decided to publish a couple of articles. It had been reasonably well known that our […]
Category: Tax and Spend
N&R: Our Property Tax Rates Highest Among State’s Biggest Cities
The report is found here. The socialists and their allies within the bureaucracy will find ways to rationalize it. But there is a long tradition of our area having much higher taxes than other areas in the state. We live in a “big spending” bubble. To reverse this trend, citizens […]
NC General Assembly About To Come To Property Tax Rescue?
A couple of articles in the regional mainstream media report that Republicans are getting ready to propose a constitutional amendment on property taxes. It would limit property tax increases to a certain formula. This is very much needed, but it will not completely shield us from property tax increases. It […]
Guilford And Forsyth Both Property Tax Abusers
A study by the John Locke Foundation reveals that both Guilford and Forsyth Counties increased their property tax revenues greater than population growth and inflation should have justified. Data was examined over the last ten years. If there is any consolation to be found in the study, it is that […]
Guilford County Commissioners Heard From Property Owners
Sparks flew at the county commissioners’ meeting last night. A similar meeting took place at the Greensboro City Council earlier this week. Even if the county commissioners adopt a revenue-neutral property tax rate after the recent revaluations, some property owners will face steep tax hikes. Some fear they will lose […]
Guilford Property Taxes: Opposition Emerging?
The entire county is now concerned about property tax revaluations. Pat Tillman– one of the county commissioners– says he has as many as four votes in support of a revenue-neutral property tax rate. There are currently only two Republicans on the nine-member board. That means as many as two Democrats […]
Tax Rebellion
I wonder how these great men would react to the taxes we have today:
12 Appropriations Bills Passed
This has not happened in a long time. Remain mindful there is still plenty of junk in those bills: “I'm almost 6 years into this. I didn't think we'd see that day”@RepTiffany says he’s impressed at how 12 Appropriation Bills passed the House on Thursday believing this is a starting […]
Speaker From The Floor
There is no truth to the rumor that it occurred in Greensboro or Guilford County. But it could have: Our Town Council keeps raising taxes. So I showed up with an English Lord’s wig to speak in *favor* of taxes. “If you can’t pay your taxes…don’t be poor.” pic.twitter.com/mD64UTUkB1 — […]
Proportion Of Federal Taxes Spent On Fraud
If the below is true, the implications would be absolutely staggering: (HT: Fred) this is shocking: > US collects $2.4T in income tax, but spends $1.5T on fraud > if we didn't have to pay for fraud, only $900b would need to be collected > this means anyone with less […]