As local pols are working on looming 2014 budgets, I read the Gaston County budget for 2013. Certain things stand out. The first is that, unless county staff has had a change of heart, they have no intention of trying to keep taxes as low as possible but are seeking every avenue they can to increase […]
The more things change, the more things stay the same. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, having yet to finish spending a $516,000,000 bond package voted on in 2007, which won’t be entirely spent until 2016, wants more money, $400,000,000 more, in the pipeline now. A short history of CMS, school bonds, and their spending practices seem timely. […]
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 […]
One must always cower before the all-knowing leaders of the NAACP. One must not dare to confront them or object to their demands; else fire and brimstone will erupt from the mouths of their preachers. How do we know? Because every time someone is so bold as to vary from the group’s demands, he is […]
Can you spell self-serving? In this case, you need the letters CRVA – the tourism cheerleading squad, Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority. In a recent article the Charlotte Observer dutifully regurgitates the report from the CRVA, which tells all how wonderful the Democratic National Convention was to Charlotte. You will have to excuse me if I […]
In my previous essay I addressed the idea of economies evolving from a growing, dynamic state to a static one where people try to maintain position and use their assets to build monuments to themselves. Nothing derogatory was meant about service businesses; in fact, the business I operate is a service business. The point is […]
Under Socialism, you don’t have to pass a law; you just have to use your economic control to make the companies enforce the law. Growing government control over banks and investment companies, directly and indirectly, allows those institutions to be used to target firearms manufacturers. Cerberus was bullied into dropping the Freedom Group, which includes […]
The economy of the United States has expanded since before we were a country. This constant expansion came to be part of the norm, the expected, and so has led to people believing their children should be better off than them. But economic expansion is dependent upon certain things in society and when those things […]
Mr. Pete Kaliner informs us that WRAL starting something new, a website tracking the new Republican Governor’s promises. Mr. Kaliner seems somewhat bemused by the entire affair, thinking that either WRAL has just entered the age of the Internet or is concerned that a Republican might not be exactly what WRAL thinks Raleigh wants. I […]
Another nutcase left unattended and the leftists cry out for protection from guns, drunk drivers, high incomes, global warming and old age, among other things. Is government protection from baldness on the list? How did we get here? We have a country which was established with the use of weapons. These weapons were owned by individuals and used to […]
