There has been much ballyhoo here in North Carolina over the fact there is a surplus anticipated during the next budget year in the range of a billion dollars. However, some of us have been warning over the sharp escalations in state spending during recent years. In particular, I have […]
Category: Tax and Spend
Local Politicians Always Need More Money
It was recently reported that Greensboro’s parks have “pressing maintenance needs” that will require $285 million. How can that be? After all, parks are built, and money is allocated every year in the budget to maintain them. And the budgets are never austere. How is it that, all of a […]
Upstate South Carolina State Legislator Goes Viral
The issue in the South Carolina state legislature was a billion-dollar incentives package to be given to Volkswagen to locate an electric vehicle plant in the state. Adam Morgan successfully got his opposition to say out loud that he should ignore his constituents:
How Much Is the City Of Greensboro Paying To Support The Homeless?
According to John Hammer at the Rhino Times, the figure has been $22,000 per year per homeless person. However, he states if a proposal to use the old Regency Inn to house the homeless is consummated, the cost will be $228,000 per year per homeless person. He suggests there are […]
Guilford County’s Era of Big Spending
The Rhino Times had an article yesterday that outlines how 2023 was the “year of massive spending” for our county government in Guilford County. And today, the News and Record reports that the county plans to create 27 new positions for social workers, thus assuring the massive spending increases will […]