More than 88,000 households can look forward to a tax increase in excess of 20 percent if the county board approves a rate-neutral budget being pushed by Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts. That number would drop to just shy of 60,000 households facing a 20 percent or more tax hike under a revenue-neutral budget plan. The […]
As Big Ben winds down the second round of so-called quantitative easing, MarketWatch’s Brett Arends takes an objective look at what dumping $600 billion of phantom currency into the market has accomplished: Turns out the program has created maybe 700,000 full-time jobs — at a cost of around $850,000 each. House prices are lower than […]
What happens when a federal agency, in this case the National Labor Relations Board, throws it weight around in a blatant attempt to block a private business from doing business? Tyranny happens. That’s the take from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who doesn’t pull any punches with his assessment of the government hatchet job and general […]
Fresh off squashing the CIAA tickets kickback scheme with a revision to their ethics policy, Mecklenburg County commissioners were informed last week by the county’s legal department that they could not accept free tickets to attend the NASCAR Sprint Cup All Star Race, courtesy of an invitation extended by Charlotte Motor Speedway. The same prohibition […]
I thought I had the perfect lede lined up for an article that tied into yesterday’s Meck Dec anniversary. It was going to compare the original patriots who told a king to take a flying leap to the mass of concerned citizens who showed up at Thursday night’s public hearing to protest the county manager’s […]
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County Manager Harry Jones’ proposed tax hike budget is taking what has become the county government’s catch cliché – doing more with less – and twisting it to a new mantra of grabbing more from less. As Jeff Taylor notes earlier this week, Jones’ proposed budget and its $907.1 million revaluation harvest of property tax […]
Says here that the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t think now is the time to be creating new taxes. Great, glad to hear it. So I’m certain all of the chamber chieftains will be at the Government Center tonight to strongly encourage commissioners to scuttle the county manager’s recommended budget, which creates millions of dollars in […]
The latest in roadway wizardry is soon to hit the Queen City. This from WSOC-TV: A complicated traffic pattern designed to ease congestion that has never been used in North Carolina will soon be used in at least four locations in the Charlotte area … The model, called a diverging diamond interchange, essentially allows two directions of […]
There’s a little known law of Cardassian physics that states if a government bureaucrat travels fast enough along the space-time continuum, he can turn a tax decrease into a tax increase. Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones hit warp speed with his $1.4 billion recommended budget, which simultaneously trims the tax rate by about a penny […]
