The field of play in the Carolina Panthers’ drive for taxpayer subsidy shifted this week when the N.C. House government committee green-lighted legislation that nixes any hike to Charlotte’s local food and beverage tax to help fund Bank of America Stadium upgrades, but would allow the city to dip into the existing tax revenue stream for similar […]
Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.), (Gastonia, Hickory, Black Mountain) who chairs a key subcommittee on the House Financial Services Committee joined others on the committee last Friday to send a letter to Eric Holder “express(ing) deep concern” about recent comments from the administration about (refusal to) prosecute ANYONE at the large financial firms. The letter, addressed […]
The 10 second version of the HOT Lanes sales pitch sounds pretty positive, but a look behind the curtain says the fast talking salesman is prepping his mark for the old bait and switch. Here’s what they tell you, the citizen, the voter, the mark… HOT lanes will reduce congestion. Some users will be able to […]
And this is why government shouldn’t be giving preferntial tax treatment to companies. A story in the Charlotte Observer raises questions about whether Mecklenburg County government officials really needed to throw millions of dollars at MetLife in order to lure the insurance giant to North Carolina. On Saturday, less than 24 hours after a press conference announcing […]
“This year, for the first time in the history of the world, more people will die from too much food than from too little food. More people will die from the effects of obesity than from starvation, and we’ve got to do something about this.” – NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, defending his ban on sugary […]
The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, to far too little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As elsewhere reported, some of this purchase order is for rounds forbidden […]
photos by Glen Simmons, EventImagesCarolina.com Davidson Ladies complete the SoCon regular season at home with a win against Western Carolina at Belk Arena. March 4th [nggallery id=73]
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While the NC legislature is moving towards revising our current convoluted tax code, we can only hope the US Congress would do the same thing. Taxes are supposed to be about one thing: raising money from the people to fund a government for the people. We have gone far beyond that. The contorted code we […]
The Obama Administration, via congressional testimony by the nation’s top cop, publicly made it clear this week to the US Senate, the American people, and our partners and allies around the world that they believe the Rule of Law no longer applies in the United States of America. In my uneducated and oft ill-informed opinion, […]
