It seems that every 5-10 years, there is another demand for spending tens of millions to upgrade Greensboro’s coliseum complex. Like clockwork, another effort was announced within the last couple of weeks. This time, the city wants $21 million to be financed with bonds that don’t have to be approved […]
Tag: tax and spend
Rallies Against Property Tax Increases
Citizens are concerned, and they showed up at the Greensboro City Council Meeting last night. The News and Record reports several prominent local Republican elected officials appeared also. Citizens plan to do the same at the Guilford County Commissioners’ meeting Thursday evening. Kudos to these citizens who showed up and […]
N&R On Obamacare Tells Tiny Part Of The Story
A new article published by the Greensboro News and Record prominently trumpets the fact that there is a fairly sharp drop in the number of North Carolina residents signing up for Obamacare. The decrease is 22.5 percent or 219,000 less residents than last year. The “journalist” is eager to point […]
Guilford County Debt
Scott Yost had a couple of articles at the Rhino Times website last week that discussed Guilford County’s bond debt. This impacts every taxpayer because we have to pay off those bonds that are borrowed. There is a certain amount of risk associated with carrying so much debt also. While […]
Mayoral Candidates Promise Revenue-Neutral Tax Rates
At a city of Greensboro mayoral forum, both candidates said they support avoiding property tax increases by making the rate revenue-neutral in response to property revaluations. This is a positive piece of news. But it needs to be interpreted in the context of the larger picture. First, we still might […]
TBJ: 235 Greensboro City Employees Paid More Than $100,000
News such as this suggests that something is terribly wrong in our city government. It is far too big, and engaged in far too many activities, to even remotely justify paying this many people six figures. This large crowd also provides a built-in constituency to keep growing city government. The […]
Residents Show Up Regarding Guilford Property Tax Increases
The News and Record reports. Kudos to those who showed up; and even more kudos to those who made the effort to speak. Recall that we will be vulnerable to property tax increases of upwards of 40 percent with the most recent property revaluations. One of the commenters discusses a […]
Tax Hearing Thursday
The Guilford Board of County Commissioners will have a hearing Thursday at 5:30 PM regarding the potential for property tax increases resulting from property revaluations. George Hartzman reports further. We have discussed this issue here at least a few times in the recent past. Concerned citizens ought to attend and […]
The Forsyth County Student Agitators
The local news has been abuzz regarding the student demonstrations against budget cuts and terminations within the Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Schools system. I remember when I was a high school student in the New York City school system back during the 1970’s, the city faced a budget crisis because of […]
Lots Of Six Figure Salaries In Guilford County Government
Scott Yost at the Rhino Times reports. There are many well-renumerated “chiefs” who lord over average Guilford County residents– i.e., those who earn far less.