Dell Incentives Repayment Could Have Been Assured By Stam Amendment Raleigh – Representative Paul Stam (R-Wake) offered an amendment to the 2004 legislation which authorized a massive tax incentives package for Dell, Inc. This amendment would have removed any ambiguity about repayment, with interest, of all incentives paid to the computer manufacturing firm. The amendment [...]
Proposed Principles for Job Creation through Tax and Spending Reform Raleigh – The Interim Joint Finance Committee convenes today to continue its consideration of proposals to reform North Carolina’s tax structure. Republican members of the House and Senate Finance Committees released their outline for tax reform proposals to provide renewed vitality to job creation. The [...]
Voters Send Clear Message Focus Is on Issues Affecting Families Raleigh – The message is clear from Tuesday’s election in Wake County and around the country. Voters are squarely focused on core issues affecting their family and their future more than at any time in recent history. The clean sweep of four seats for the [...]
How The Democrats Raised Your Taxes Just Because They Could Raleigh – A recent report by the State Controller provided an accounting for the total spending by North Carolina for the 2008-2009 fiscal years. In a surprising revelation, the “gap” between the expenditures last year and the anticipated revenues for this year, without tax increases, [...]
Community Colleges to Admit Illegal Immigrants Raleigh—The NC Board of Community Colleges, in a meeting today, changed its policy to allow illegal immigrants to attend its degree programs. These students would be required to pay out-of-state tuition. In adopting this policy the Board ignored and defied the people of NC and Governor Perdue. Polling has [...]
All Costs to Taxpayers Must Be Considered Raleigh – The State Board of Community Colleges is expected to decide next week whether to admit illegal immigrants to degree programs. Although North Carolina community colleges are reporting record enrollments, last month the policy committee of the board recommended a policy allowing illegal immigrants. The board received [...]
Budget Conferees Refused to Eliminate Golden Parachutes Raleigh — The practice of the University of North Carolina to pay large salaries to administrators who resign to return to teaching positions survived the budget knife. According to the News and Observer, this policy has cost NC taxpayers more than $8 million over the past five years. [...]
Budget Raises Taxes During Recession and Cuts Per Pupil Education Funding Raleigh – Governor Bev Perdue has consistently pledged to North Carolina citizens she will not sign a budget that raises taxes on working people or cuts funding for education. The budget passed yesterday by the General Assembly does both. As a candidate and as [...]
Democrats Refuse to Cut Spending, Balance Budget on Families, Small Business Raleigh, N.C. – Despite the fact that North Carolina has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and economists regularly say that higher taxes slow job growth, Governor Beverly Perdue and legislative Democrats have failed to cut state spending and instead decided [...]
A Continuing Resolution Keeps Government Operating The House of Representatives today passed a temporary budget measure to ensure funding for state government services until a permanent budget is crafted. The vote was 102 – 5. The continuing resolution contains no tax rate increases of any kind. Republicans in the legislature have insisted that tax increases [...]
