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Ongoing NC GOP debacle thread

I would be interested in his thoughts about how spending several million on Jeff [Redacted] affected higher education at his institution.
 
SMDH.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/traffic/road-worrier-blog/article35300280.html

The new budget also takes aim at 29 state Department of Transportation employees, whose jobs – listed by their individual position numbers – are identified for elimination.

In addition to firing those workers, DOT is ordered to eliminate another 21 “filled positions that are centrally or regionally based and that perform administrative, managerial, supervisory, or oversight functions.”

It’s a list pared down from an earlier Senate budget proposal to get rid of 56 specific DOT employees. The reduced hit list still includes veteran engineers and two senior managers with salaries above $115,000: Debbie Barbour, who oversees highway design, project development and other services as DOT’s preconstruction director; and Jennifer Brandenburg, who is responsible for highway maintenance and other chores as DOT’s asset management engineer.

Legislative leaders have said the job cuts are related to stepped-up quotas for outsourcing – to let private contractors take over engineering and other jobs now done by DOT employees. But no explanations have been offered for the particular names chosen for elimination.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/traffic/road-worrier-blog/article35300280.html#storylink=cpy
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ETA: It just wouldn't be a NCGOP budget without some regressive fees that will hit the poorest citizens the hardest.

Increases Division of Motor Vehicle fees. The fee for an eight-year driver’s license renewal will rise from $32 to $40. The cost of renewing your car registration each year, not counting the county property tax you pay at the same time, will rise from $51 to $66. This is the first DMV fee hike since 2005. Starting in 2020, the fees will rise every four years under a new inflation-indexed formula.

Adds new fees for late registration renewals. If your registration is expired for less than one month, you pay $15; more than one or less than two months, $20; two months or longer, $25. The late fees will be used to pay for driver’s ed.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/traffic/road-worrier-blog/article35300280.html#storylink=cpy
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Wait, I thought poor people didn't have cars, hence why they can't drive from their food deserts to grocery stores, or drive to a job, or drive to vote, or drive their kids to a better school ... which is it today? I get so confused by these internal battles within the liberal agenda.
 
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Wait, I thought poor people didn't have cars, hence why they can't drive from their food deserts to grocery stores, or drive to a job, or drive to vote, or drive their kids to a better school ... which is it today? I get so confused by these internal battles within the liberal agenda.
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Here, I'll let the Heritage Foundation answer your question. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/09/understanding-poverty-in-the-united-states-surprising-facts-about-americas-poor

You may also be interested to know that the average annual cost of owning a car is over $9,000, which is a pretty huge tax on America's poor due to our national allergy to public transit solutions. https://www.google.com/search?q=average+annual+cost+of+owning+a+car&rlz=1C1CHMO_enUS504US504&oq=average+annual+cost+of+owning+a+car&aqs=chrome..69i57.5077j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8
 
Okay, great. So that means that transportation is no longer a relevant argument for food deserts, job accessibility, voting locations, and school choice, right?

And if it is $9,000 to own a car, the $15 registration increase is a 00.16% increase. I'm not sure how that can be deemed excessive. The $8 increase for an 8-year license renewal is $1/year. People are seriously going to complain about that? Holy shit, that doesn't even cover the processing fee for them to let you pay by credit card.
As for the late fees, I know personal responsibility is not possible, but pay your bills on time and that isn't a problem. Especially a DMV notice that is issued like 4 months before the amount is actually owed.
 
Increase regressive sales taxes and fees. Cut taxes for those that don't need it.

Cut per-pupil spending in public education.

Undercut the large municipalities.
 
So we can index fee increases to inflation, but we can't do the same with wages?

I see you, GOP.
 
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2015/0...or-low-income-families-snuck-into-the-budget/

And she may also be surprised to learn that none of the extra money she will have to pay to fix her car or washing machine will stay in her county to help her daughter’s school or improve the local roads.

Instead it will go to another county in the state as part of a scheme inserted into the final budget agreement that expands the sales tax to a host of commonly used services with the proceeds directed to a special fund that benefits 79 counties, while 21 mostly urban and tourist counties receive nothing.
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Tax increase and redistribution.
 
Some dumbass US Representative from York County, SC just publicly endorsed Rand Paul. Way to ensure you're a mover and a shaker this election season.
 
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