Lesson here in NC must be if you dont get your way just bitch, moan, complain and protest each week and get arrested
dont these people have jobs? (wait, nevermind)
Tricia Cotham
Breaking News Moms- you can now take your gun to the playground. This was just passed in the NC Senate. Pack that diaper bag, sippy cup and your gun. Oh and others can bring their guns too.
Admire the guy for sticking with his principles. Rare.
It's an impressive feat to be too far right for this legislature. Ruccho's biggest problem was not necessarily "special interests," (as he referred to the same industries that paid for his campaign) but rather the fact that very few citizens in NC are actually calling for wholesale tax reform of the type contemplated in his bill. It just wasn't popular. His fellow legislators know that, but he wanted them to go along anyway and got mad when they didn't. I admire his principles, but the ability to cooperate and seek compromise is a pretty basic trait for a good politician.
true. The whole tax reform process has been interesting. It seems Republicans thought it would be easy until they actually started putting the proposals together. The new Senate plan, IMO, is garbage. Hopefully it's just a placeholder to get something approved and then they can work off the House plan in conference.
One thing that isn't getting much attention in all of this is the fact that every plan I believe takes some revenues away from cities and counties, some replaced, others not. Worst case scenario there is higher property taxes or reductions in service.
It's an impressive feat to be too far right for this legislature. Ruccho's biggest problem was not necessarily "special interests," (as he referred to the same industries that paid for his campaign) but rather the fact that very few citizens in NC are actually calling for wholesale tax reform of the type contemplated in his bill. It just wasn't popular. His fellow legislators know that, but he wanted them to go along anyway and got mad when they didn't. I admire his principles, but the ability to cooperate and seek compromise is a pretty basic trait for a good politician.
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People are waking up to this. It was highlighted in both articles on tax reform in the GSO News and Record this morning. They're talking about revenue losses of over a hundred million dollars to municipalities five years out. Due to the imprecise way the media covers these issues I can't tell if that's a loss from today's actual revenue or a loss from five years out projected revenue (makes a huge difference). Assuming its a loss from today's actual revenue, the munis will have no choice but to impose higher property taxes. The articles also talked about the Senate bill allowing cities to add back sales taxes on food, but I can't tell if they will allow cities to hike their own sales tax rates without legislative approval (which in today's rural vs. urban environment would never be granted).