Comments for Commissioner Hood Richardson States the Correct Case | Eastern North Carolina Now

Stan---since you have not advocated for lowering Property Taxes to a more realistic value, you are trying to generate black ink on the backs of us citizens. At any meeting the Commissioners COULD vote to change the evaluations by 30% downward to reflect the realities of property actually sold in the last 5 years GETTING 30% LESS THAN THE APPRAISED VALUE!

Most of us working folks are making LESS than we did 20 years ago. HOWEVER, government is now bleeding us to balance a budget. In the case of NC, so many breaks are given the rich that we CAN'T BALANCE THAT BUDGET. You theorize that money will trickle down is the rich are favored.

The reality in NC is that average folks are paying more the last 2 years / my small business can not longer use the $50K tax credit to purchase new equipment / BUT a wealthy person or corp can buy a multi-million dollar private jet with credits given to them . . .

My tree of "PROPERTY taxation confusion" is more than dangerous to my house ownership while we are considering paying a new County Manager some $125,000---to be frustrated by the Commissioners who make decisions about the underfunded Jail and Healthcare in Belhaven . . . WHERE IS THE EQUITY, MY BROTHER????

Commented: Saturday, April 25th, 2015 @ 8:12 am By: Gene Scarborough

Come on out to my next tree job and see how common sense brings down a tree within 5' of where I am standing to gauge the distance! The most basic math equation is~~~any object doubles in weight for every foot it falls so even a small looking limb at the top of a 60' pin can hurt your bad.

With the hard head of conservatism, Stan, you won't require a helmet!

Commented: Friday, April 24th, 2015 @ 5:15 am By: Gene Scarborough

... And the logic of using math.

You should consider it at some point.

Commented: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 1:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I am not your resource for terminology. There is an internet for finding mundane information.

And, also, you could be one of those folks that I speak of. Making nice will not keep taxes from going up. That is the history of it; but you would not know that. Would you?

You and your friends, who wag your tongues far too much, should learn math.

You want all this money spent, your taxes lower, and you want those who can actually do math, and make wise policy decisions to make nice with those who can't.

And when the Liberals raise the taxes, and make all the stupid decisions along the way to do so, it was mine and Hood's fault, even though the record shows that we consistently voted the right way to make government leaner and more responsive.

I get it. Also, what I get is that you and your friends need to learn to think much deeper on real issues, or suffer the government that they, and you deserve.

Commented: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 11:07 am By: Stan Deatherage

Look it up.

Actually, don't you think all this discussion about congeniality among commissioners is a bit shallow. The way I see it, it gives people who have no clue what local government does something to talk about, when, probably, they are the type of people who tend to talk far too much.

One should never let the wagging of their tongue outpace the working of their brain.

Commented: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 10:26 am By: Stan Deatherage

It is totally different.

No states use the vernacular of county council.

Commented: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 8:56 am By: Stan Deatherage

First of all, it is the Beaufort County Commissioners; we are not council people.

Secondly, my behavior was always pitch perfect. Hood's approach to governing is his business. No one of real intelligence ever had any problems with my behavior.

Ask around. You'll see.

Commented: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 @ 9:31 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Remarkably, you did hit on an acceptable stupidity, at least with the lower information community, that it is Hood's fault (and formerly was Stan's fault) for the egregiously bad decisions of other commissioners. Now, there is just Hood to blame for this stupidity of others, however acceptable as cocktail knowledge.

Fortunately, there are laws to shield the balance of the community from the acceptable stupidity of others, especially the electorate that elects these commissioners that would just do the opposite of Hood, and formerly Stan.

While stupidity can get you killed, it can also ruin a community once it becomes too ingrained in the governing of our People.

Commented: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 @ 5:21 pm By: Stan Deatherage