According to a report in the Charlotte Observer, the poor now make up 16.3% of the population of the Charlotte metropolitan area. This is a curious number primarily because being poor means having an income of $43,000 or less. Next step up is ‘Low Income’ which means having an income between $43,000 and $51,500. But let […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx continues to advocate for city/county government consolidation. Why? There is no place for serious savings to the taxpayers. Those changes were made long ago. The city gave parks to the county; the county gave police to the city. The city has fire, public transit and roads; the county funds CMS, social services, […]
Some newspapers in North Carolina would have one think that a reorganization of the wasteful policies of Medicaid would “imperil health care for the poor.” Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth. Medicaid is a wasteful raft of policies that have little restrictions on the use of taxpayer money to pay for every ailment […]
Carolinas HealthCare tells state regulators they want to expand. Here we have another regulated business having to ask the state for permission to add capacity. That wouldn’t be so bad except regulation, which is always touted as serving the people, has only served the medical business, not the public. Using the information given in their […]
One can only be amused at the convoluted thinking Judge Howard Manning and his supporters supply to his distortion of his authority under the state constitution. The instant case has to do with North Carolina’s pre-kindergarten program for 4-year-olds. According to the aggressively liberal mindset, the legislature is supposed to cough up $30,000,000 or more […]
There are those who decry capitalism for its faults and propensities to reward some at the expense of others. There are others who, more accurately, say what we have in the US is crony capitalism, which is not to be confused with true capitalism. The gaming to lure Continental Tire’s new plant to North Carolina […]
As the world turns, the creditors continue to line up for their interest payments. In Greece the lenders let the politicians borrow money to spend on their current pet projects and continued to lend them money for more pet projects until Greece cannot repay the loans. This was not a difficult situation to foresee. Something […]
Recently I wrote a column that brought objections from some readers, which indicates the issue needs be more deeply dissected. What responsibilities should recipients of transfer payments have, if any, and what rights should they give up to those who pay? In choosing to transfer money from one group of people to another, for whatever […]
Jails (not to be confused with prisons) exist for two purposes. One is to house those people who by dint of their anti-social proclivities alienate themselves from society. The second, less commonly understood, is to house those people who find themselves unable to cope normally with society, yet do not commit anti-social actions. We generally […]
Let us thank the Tea Party. Finally, a group of representatives who stand up for the taxpayers and the American Way of Life. What they have done is historical and outstanding. In the face of threats, lies, prognostications of impending financial doom and the world coming to an end, they stood their ground. An apt […]
