Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools: A government agency whose avowed purpose is to provide an education to all children, no matter their circumstance. It is with such lofty purposes every government venture begins. The results are in and have been for decades. They have been in since the 1950s and 1960s, long before the decline associated with the […]
There will be a revaluation of property in Mecklenburg County this year. Look out for a tax increase. Did Jennifer Roberts really get reelected? Well it could be worse. If she transmorgrified into Parks Helms there would be no question about the chances of a property tax increase. With Helms out and Roberts in there […]
“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.” Leon Trotsky, 1937, from “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is […]
For the first time in recent memory the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), in concert with county staff, is looking at how to be reasonable about the money they spend on capital projects. This is historic. Never before has the majority of the BOCC or county staff concerned themselves with how much they spent […]
As per my previous essay, the following is a quote from Mr. Martin Davis. There is no question of his strong religious beliefs and how they affect his decisions about life and thus how society should be ordered. The question for society, whether of similar religious beliefs or not, is how government should be structured […]
One of the ways the federal government controls local governments is with strings. An amorphous agency gives some amount of money for some wonderful, pie-in-the-sky program, with strings attached. Local governments, being unwilling to say no to tax money taken by another authority simply because they aren’t held responsible for the taxes but get to […]
The founders of the United States, a group of nervy, anti-Colonialists, wrote the U.S. Constitution. There were arguments to be sure. But in making a government of the United States the founders tried to limit the ability of government to become abusive of the people. They did this by dividing government into four parts: the […]
Economists tell us a recession is when the economy is receding. Growth is obvious. What is a depression? The anecdote goes something like – it’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job, a depression when you lose yours. A lot of people are in a depression and the question is what is their government […]
As the failure of major public pension funds looms on the horizon, talk is of how to resolve the issue. R. Eden Martin, in a well thought out essay in the WSJ, makes various recommendations that would resolve part of the problem, but his thought, and that of most others, treats the symptoms and not […]
Environmentalist radicals (ER’s) are something to behold. Their expectations are that all they want should be done with no concern for costs. They concern themselves with anything they think is wrong and their overall viewpoint seems to be that mankind is wrong if he does anything more than the Australian aboriginals. ER’s want the climate […]
