Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on July 28th, 2009 | Categorized as Budget, Press Releases, Taxes, Wasteful Spending | Tagged as Budget, Taxes, Wasteful Spending
More Taxes in Store for Everyone The Governor and Democratic leadership of the Senate and House still have not drafted a balanced budget — a full month overdue. The drama being played between Governor Perdue and the Democrats in the Legislature is pointing to ineptitude by those in charge to deal with the real cause [...]
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on July 28th, 2009 | Categorized as Death Penalty, Press Releases, Taxes | Tagged as Death Penalty, Taxes
On July 15, 2009 61 House Democrats voted for the “NC Racial Justice Act” SB461. Federal and State law already prohibit racial discrimination in imposing death sentence for first degree murder (and any crime). This bill goes far beyond that by allowing use of statistics in a particular county or district to prove that since [...]
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on July 28th, 2009 | Categorized as Budget, Press Releases, Taxes | Tagged as Budget, Taxes
Raleigh, N.C. – According to news reports, Governor Beverly Perdue told reporters yesterday that she does not care which combination of tax increases the Democratic Legislative leaders agree on as Democrats continue closed door negotiations about the state budget. Governor Perdue also reportedly contends that the state is missing out on $5 million a day [...]