taxes

Guess who wants to give YOU some real tax relief?

If you're a $50-$100k/year household -- You, the middle of the middle class, the folks among us who spend money at local stores, eat in local restaurants and who usually spend a chunk of vacation money every year right here in the US of A, feeding our economy and keeping it moving -- Obama and the Democrats see the strain on your income and they'll do something to help.

Shouldn't $1.6 million dollars of your hard earned North Carolina tax money give you the right to know and refuse exposure to hazardous pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals? If Governor Easley can spend $1.6 million tax payer dollars on a pesticide plan to protect farmworkers shouldn't the plan also include protecting the citizens of North Carolina as well. The plan should be comprehensive and not discriminate between industries, companies, workers, and citizens. Tell the Director of the State Office of Rural Health and Community Care, Mr. John Price to implement a plan that protects everyone's right to know when being exposed to hazardous pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals.

WHY IS NORTH CAROLINA GIVING THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES A FREE "PASS" ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION?

Have we given up because everyone in North Carolina perceives their policies to be so similar? Or do we believe the candidates for state government's claims that they can fix the problem?

"It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT or anti-trade sentiment AS A WAY TO EXPLAIN THEIR FRUSTRATIONS."

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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John McCain cannot be trusted to balance the budget.

John McCain has tried to portray himself as someone who can be trusted to balance the budget. The truth is, during his time in Washington, McCain has repeatedly voted to protect President Bush's budget-busting tax cuts, which have added trillions of dollars to our nation's debt for the next generation of Americans to pay off.

Republican Dan Mansell ran a congressional campaign two years ago touting "fair taxes".

By "fair", he meant contributing nearly $50,000 to well-heeled Republican political campaigns and committees while ignoring his responsibility to employees.

Mansell failed to pay more than $220,000 in payroll taxes to the federal government, according to tax liens filed at the Johnston County Clerk of Court office.

Now Mansell has filed to run again.

Dan Mansell owed more than $220,000 in back taxes.

Great news. Just read on the Wake Up Wal-Mart blog that after a six year battle, the residents of Union County have successfully deflected the attempts by Wal-Mart to build a new supercenter.

It seems that in the rush of the holidaze, I missed this little gem back in December at The Inside Scoop. NC-Rep Cary Allred (R-Alamance), has been trying to contact his US Congressman to get something taken care of for five years. On Dec. 3, at the Liberty town parade, Allred asked Rep. John Blust, who had been riding with our congressman, Howard Coble, "Would you please tell that a**hole to call me?" Apparently Coble finally got the message.

As some of you may know, Wal-Mart is trying to sneak its way out of paying $30 million in North Carolina taxes. Well, taxpayers won a small (but important) victory yesterday when a Wake County judge ruled that Wal-Mart had to make public thousands of pages of documents. That means internal memos and strategy papers will come out of the shadows. (More after the jump)

Frontpaged by A. Thanks for catching this one for us.

Wal-Mart is refusing to pay North Carolina $30 million in unpaid taxes.