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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of Bureaucracy
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 1:22 pm
By: BCCitizen
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In many parts of Europe, and Germany and France are the worst, there are attempts to criminalize opposition to mass migration. In France, a French senator was arrested for "hate speech" for posting online "immigration Kills" after a brutal murder and rape of a French girl by an illegal alien.
The globalists are no different than the communists or nazis on suppressing free speech. The most dangerous totalitarians of today owe their allegiance to Davos and the WEF.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 2:15 pm
By: borderhawk
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyNeutral and the City is above the County tax rate. The county stayed flat in a reval year while the city imposed an 11.5 cent increase while stating in articles they decreased the rate.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 1:22 pm
By: BCCitizen
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyThe city manager told the local newspaper with a straight face that it was a tax decrease. He lied and he knew he was lying, but probably instructed to do that by his boss the mayor. Not only is it an increase in terms of cents, 11.5 to be precise, but in percentage terms it is even worse, an increase of over 28%. How do these city buffoons think city taxpayers won't figure that our when they get their tax bills? Citizens will then know that not only have they been soaked by a massive tax increase, but they have also been lied to.
Maybe Sadler is sandbagging the city manager so he can achieve his dream of the first black city manager. When citisens figure out it was a lie, he will be the scapegoat.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 1:40 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyNeutral and the City is above the County tax rate. The county stayed flat in a reval year while the city imposed an 11.5 cent increase while stating in articles they decreased the rate.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 1:27 pm
By: BCCitizen
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Commented on What’s the price of closing S. W. Snowden?Speaking of polluted waterways:
www.cbs17.com 11 more NC river sites hav failed water-quality testing this wk. Testing was done by Sound Rivers, a group whose aim is to "monitor & protect th Neuse & Tar-Pamlico watersheds" & to "preserve th health & beauty of th river basin through environmental justice." Sites failed testing: Poole Road Canoe Launch on Neuse River in Raleigh Clayton River Walk on Upper Neuse River in Clayton Maple Cypress Boat Ramp on Lower Neuse River in Grifton Cow Pen Landing on Lower Neuse River in Vanceboro Spring Garden on Lower Neuse River in New Bern Slocum Creek on Lower Neuse River in Havelock Port Terminal on Tar-Pamlico watershed n Gville Yankee Hall Road on Tar-Pamlico watershed n Pactolus Washington Waterfront on Tar-Pamlico watershed Havens Gardens on Tar-Pamlico watershed n Washington Pamlico Plantation along Broad Creek near th Pamlico Riv
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 1:35 pm
By: Washingtonian
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyJohn, I was addressing more of the fees for notary, parks and rec, mowing and lot cleaning, boat slip rentals, etc. Those are fees. They are a pay as you use fee. I agree that the admin charge to the general fund for utilities is absurd! The previous administration there got that charge way down, to what it reasonably should be. Then, Russell came in and spent down fund balance and increased taxes and fees. They increased taxes by .02 years ago for the new police station. However, when that was built and paid for, they kept the .02 and did not give it back to the citizens. They are dishonest. I already know people who have put their house up for sale and bought land to build outside of the city limits because of the crazy increases the City has imposed. An increase in tax may be warranted if you are getting more services provided but they are not doing that. They took the revaluation and used it as an excuse to blame the county on the tax increase. However, the county is at revenue....
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 1:08 pm
By: BCCitizen
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyI will argue, successfully, that the county government actually raised taxes this fiscal year, and one can easily decipher such once they get their tax bill in August, thus comparing probable increase year over year.
As your Conservative County Commissioner, I voted against that tax hike in a variety of ways, on a multiplicity of days. The City of Washington took raising taxes, however, in a revaluation year, to a grand and incredible scale, far beyond what the county of beaufort did to its citizens, so I am advising all taxpayers to compare bills and know the truth of your property tax predicament of financing certain "Waste, Fraud and Abuse."
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 1:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyNeutral and the City is above the County tax rate. The county stayed flat in a reval year while the city imposed an 11.5 cent increase while stating in articles they decreased the rate.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 1:10 pm
By: BCCitizen
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I stand with the people of Israel, and the courage of President Donald Trump to act in defense of our greatest ally in this very dangerous world, where insanity is often championed by the status quo within those groups of dwindling status; those politicians of incredibly limited core values.
Be wary of the blow-back by this diminishing throng of Non Patriot Leftists, who think without knowing, act accordingly, and with continued pathetic abandon, proving once again ... The Democratic Socialist Party, in league with their Non Patriot Leftist enablers, has no reason to exist.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 12:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyIf I ran for local elected office, and promised free ice cream for life, free grocery stores, $30 per hr wages, free childcare, no cops, no arrest, etc, would I be elected? Are we smarter than New Yorkers? I guess that remains to be seen.
I remember a guy who said I dont see why we cant build Two bridges. We didnt even get one. Citizens are being advised to think twice about who they vote for. We get the Govts we deserve.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 11:53 am
By: Washingtonian
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyBC Citizen: That sounds about right.
The City of Washington is a much smaller government than county government, and there is plenty of low hanging fruit to cut as waste (even more than the county government, where there is a plenty), so their core government should be considerably less than the 25 Million mark.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 11:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Now this Harry Reid hack of a Senate parliamentarian is blocking the provisions dealing with Medicaid fraud. She is a tax and spend whore and needs to be F-I-R-E-D, especially after she allowed the Biden Green New Deal crap to go through reconciliation but want allow things that actually save the taxpayers money.
www.breitbart.com
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 11:31 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyFees are just another word for taxes by the back door. Many things that used to be paid for by taxes in Washington have been shifted to "fees" like trash pick up and storm water drainage. Calling those "fees" when they used to be covered by taxes is just dishonest. It is pulling the wool over citizens eyes. If it looks like a tax, walks like a tax, quacks like a tax, it is a tax no matter what name you try to put on it.
Then there is the overcharging for electricity that is then shifting into the general fund. That is just another tax by the back door Transparency means not shifting tax supported city activities to "fees" and it means not gouging on electric rates for a backdoor tax. Transparency also means giving meaningful notice of the budget and the taxes involved, which the Sadler regime did NOT do.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 11:21 am
By: John Steed
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyNick: Their General Fund budget is 25,000,000. Of that, their ad valorem (property) taxes are 7.5 million. They are not collecting 57 million in taxes from residents. This can all be found in their budget. Also, the taxes are not spread equally across the city. Waterfront areas pay more, obviously. So, NO, every citizen is NOT paying $12,127 or even $10,000+. A lot of revenue is fees. While I agree, their tax increase is insane and their board needs an overhaul. I like transparency from both sides of a debate and saying that they are collecting 57 million in taxes and every citizen is paying $12,127 is highly inaccurate.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 8:54 am
By: BCCitizen
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Commented on What’s the price of closing S. W. Snowden?I'm no Nostradamus but I predicted the downfall of Aurora in 1974.I told people that they was no way you could mine at the depth they were doing and not disturb the aquifer. As I studied more I said that there was a possibility of polluting the waterways. Slowly over the years my predictions came to life.with Pollutants come the the chance of cancer and that has happened also.
Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 6:20 pm
By: Eugene Barrow
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The fact that this woman is still in that job where she can sabotage Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, is an example of the utter treachery of that despicable sell out Mitch McConnell. Thune needs to replace her or be replaced himself.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 7:58 am
By: Conservative Voter
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If Biden controlled the autopen, she would have known it and said it. The fact that she says she does not know who approved it is an admission it was not Biden. Everything done with that autopen ought to be declared invalid.
Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 7:56 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyThe City of Washington needs a governmental overhaul; an overhaul that should be drastic in scale.
Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyBCCitizen: there are roughly 4700 employed citizens in the City of Washington. The City's budget is roughly $57 million. (That's $117 million minus $60 million for utilities). That's $12,127 per working working citizen. It's atrocious.
Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 4:20 pm
By: Nick Fritz
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyYou identified the problem. None of this is communicated to the public to allow them to respond until after the fact. We used to have a daily newspaper that carried information like this and had a wide circulation, but what is left of that newspaper is now a pathetic joke. It would help if online publications like this one would help try to get such information out.
What are council members who genuinely want to represent the public going to do? Realize that this budget is a massive burden on citizens and send it back for cuts. They don't have to have people tell them that to comprehend the problem. Unfortunately, Washington now has a council that is almost all pathetic yes-men who will do what Boss Sadler wants. That needs to change.
Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 3:49 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyConcerned taxpayer, that would require citizens to know what is going on. No one showed up to speak at the public hearing on the budget. What were the elected officials supposed to do when staff recommended a budget that no citizen opposed in public session? Someone must get the information out to the public. Their recommended budget online does not state a tax rate. Unless citizens show up to the meetings where the tax rate was discussed, there was no way for them to know what rate was being used, whether it be at or above revenue neutral. I agree, vote them all out. An increase of 11.5 cent in one budget year is asinine. It is an increase of over 30%. The city manager is saying it is for 4 paramedics but the math doesn't add up!
Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 2:20 pm
By: BCCitizen
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Commented on Civics 101: Beware of BureaucracyThe Sadler machine has raised city taxes by 11.5 cents above the revenue neutral rate, an enormous increase on top of the revaluation. Washington's citizens are being clobbered with taxes. We need to oust the tax and spend Sadler machine.
Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 1:49 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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