Maybe County Manager Harry Jones will land that Alabama gig before he releases his budget recommendation next month. Otherwise, it sounds like MeckCo taxpayers are in for a big hit. This from WBTV: Wednesday night Mecklenburg’s county manager told WBTV he’s likely to recommend a budget in three weeks that increases the tax burden on […]
A key ingredient in the Obama Administration’s recipe for winning the future is to dump billions of dollars into building a high-speed rail system on par to compete with those in China, which The One consistently holds up as the gold standard for future transportation. Turns out China’s high-speed rail is more Fool’s Gold and […]
Or purse, as the case might be. Either way, more Americans are relying on government assistance than at any other time since the Great Depression. This from USA Today: A record 18.3% of the nation’s total personal income was a payment from the government for Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, unemployment benefits and other programs […]
At the risk of going all Henny Penny on the weather geek front, a storm system predicted to move into the Char-Meck area tonight looks to be a real whopper. Be safe, folks. This from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Management: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Management Staff just concluded a conference call with the National Weather Service (NWS) regarding the […]
Team BO, the most transparent presidential administration is recent memory, finally releases The One’s long-form birth certificate. Let the newest wave of conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories begin. Frankly, I’ve never understood all the furor and angst over where Obama was born. The guy’s broken the Constitution in so many different and more damagingly profound […]
Hitting taxpayers up for a $55 million funding increase, and then canceling a budget workshop scheduled for this week, apparently passes for compromise these days with the school board. It’s also what passes for fiscal conservatism. A majority of the board last night endorsed a proposal, floated by board chair Eric Davis, to seek an […]
A little bit of perspective on the uptown paper’s gushing headline: Six-figure salaries thinning at CMS While the number of educrats pocketing $100,000 or more has shrunk from last year’s total of 104 to this year’s number of 85, let’s take a collective breath of reality and recall that last year’s number represents years of […]
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The bigger government is better government brigade in Minnesota is taking to heart the notion of taxing anything that moves. The state’s department of transportation is recruiting volunteers to test technology that could be used to impose and collect a vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) tax: “This research will provide important feedback from motorists about the effectiveness of […]
Glenn Beck tags Mike Huckabee as a progressive: “He’s the guy. He will play along with the party politics. He will get along to get along. He will move things along. He does not want to disrupt giant government, I don’t think he for this kind of giant government . . . He’s perfect for […]
