by Thomas Mills | Sep 17, 2015 | Budget, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
The budget is out and the impacts are becoming clear. The party that complains about the redistribution of wealth is continuing to redistribute wealth. Instead of shifting resources from those who have them to those that don’t, they are again reaching into the pockets...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 27, 2015 | Budget, Editor's Blog |
If budgets are reflections of priorities, we know that teachers and state employees still aren’t very high on the that list. Who is? Rich people, of course. The House and Senate announced yesterday that they’ve come to agreement on how to compensate state employees....
by John Wynne | Aug 11, 2015 | Budget, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, Tax Reform |
The State Senate, among other things, voted last night to combine three ballot questions into one – a “Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights” (TABOR) that would go before the voters in the March presidential primary. The three components of the amendment:...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 17, 2015 | Budget, Economy, Editor's Blog, Tax Reform |
Republicans often complain that government programs pick winners and losers. Nobody is choosing winners and losers more than the GOP Senate. Winners are quite clearly people who are already doing well. Losers are the rest of us. Senate Republicans are following the...
by Thomas Mills | May 22, 2015 | Budget, Editor's Blog, NCGOP |
The fight between the ideologues and pragmatists in the GOP is wide open. The current leader of the pragmatists is Speaker Tim Moore. Moore is a native North Carolinian who is the son of storekeepers. He knows the story of this state and the role education plays in...
by Thomas Mills | May 11, 2015 | Budget, Editor's Blog, Education, Tax Reform |
Republicans are crowing about the $400 million surplus while progressives are griping. The GOP should be given credit. They used conservative estimates in their budget projections because of the uncertainty of tax reform. To their benefit, the numbers came in better...
