Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

It is not just the Jews talking about fleeing France. The well off and productive citizens are also angling to flee the far left's push for a 90% income tax rate, and the French stock market is in turmoil. Macron has unleashed a Frankenstein monster, and his now much smaller party may have to turn to LePen to stop it. redstate.com

Commented: Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 @ 2:27 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden's renaway inflation train is just getting started. Inflation was only 1% when Trump left office. We need to return economic sanity to federal government.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 2:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What makes NC health care so expensive is the Certificate of Need (CON) laws that stifle competition. Most states have repealed them, but the special interests that benefit from them in NC are thick as thieves with NC legislative leadership, Phil Berger and Tim Moore, and that includes possible Moore successor Destin Hall.

Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 3:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Public schools are facing more competition. Building a monster sized school to warehouse children with likely worse outcomes is just going to make Beaufort County Schools less appealing and less competitive. Competition currently exists with surrounding county systems and with private and charter schools. Pamlico County is pulling lots of students from Beaufort County, but there are few students Beaufort County pulls from neighboring counties. When a student goes to school in a neighboring county, the state funding, thousands of dollars follows him or her.

Similarly, with the expansion of state Opportunity Scholarships, many parents will now have the ability to send their kids to private schools, and every time they do, that is more state funding per pupil that Beaufort County Schools loses. Would parents rather send their kids to be warehoused in Cheeseman's monster sized school or to a private school of managable size like Terra Ceia?

The Cheeseman plan will drive students away from Beaufort County Schools and certaily not attract any newe ones. From my understanding, population projections are for Beaufort County's growth to be west of Washington toward the Pitt County line. A new school of managable size there would attract students from Pitt County to make up for those lost, with their state funding, to Pamlico County.

But none of this matters to Cheeseman. He wants that huge elementary school on his resume. Even if Cheeseman insists on a huge school, eastern Washington is a really stupid place to build it. The lack of study and planning is glaring.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 4:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tillis is responsible for the most economically destructive pieces of Biden economic legislation, the misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act" which should have been called the "Inflation Creation Act." The Democrats were able to pass that with a simple majority because Tillis and other RINOs helped Biden earlier pass his "Ingrastructure" Bill which contained a whole lot of spending that had nothing to do with infrastructure, by a 60+ vote margin. The Senate has one shot a year to pass a spending bill that does not require a fillibuster proof majority. The only reason the Democrats had that availible to pass the "Inflation Reduction Act" was that thats to Tillis and other RINOs, they had not had to use it to pass the "Infrastructure" bill.

Of course, Tillis has been a total Biden Republican when it somes to spending, debt, and taxes. We badly need to replace him in the next primary. Tillis is completely unacceptable.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 9:00 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

If the idea was consolidation of GRADE LEVELS, it is better to change to 3 or 4 of the traditional K-6 elementary schools as neighborshood schools, with a new school west of Washington nearer the Pitt County line and renovations to other facilities. That would create the neighborhood schools we need, consolidate grade levels without monster schools, and update our school facilities. It would also save the public money that could be used for other, more pressing school needs like needed renovations at Chocowinity Elementary.

Putting a brand spanking new school close to the Pitt County line could also snag students away from Pitt County Schools, with state funding following those students who move. Pamlico County Schools have been snagging students and their state funding from Beaufort County for years. With a properly located new school, we could be doing the same to Pitt County.

Beaufort County Schools problem is that they have a superintendant who is a control freak and this school project has been largely a one man show, and from an individual lacking the skill set to do what he is trying to do. It is pathetic that our school board majority is so weak and controllable. We do badly need some major changes there. We do not need a tail that wags the dog which is what we have now.

Commented: Friday, June 28th, 2024 @ 8:12 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The issue here is proper and transparent financial planning for school construction, something we have had little of here in Beaufort County, something that goes back beyond those individuals involved in the current controversy. The last big bond issue saw very poor planning resulting in schools that are still half empty in some cases. This mega school shows the signs of the same jury-rigged process instead of proper planning. The fact that they are suddenly trying to move the actual location of the school on the property shows how totally inept the planning process was.

This issue is much bigger than Richardson or Cheeseman, "Bath Parent". Richardson is a politician and all politicians have their hits and their misses. Cheeseman is a career bureaucrat and career bureaucrats have their ways of looking at things that are often very different than the perspective of the taxpayers who pay the freight for government.

I would not say Richardson is always right or Cheeseman always wrong, but the questions Richardson is asking on this issue are spot on, and are questions any competent person in management ought to be asking on such a project. What shocks me is so many of our elected school board members and county commissioners just sitting there like deer in the headlights on this $50 million plus project. Do they plan to blame it on someone else when it becomes a boondoggle?

Clearly, "Bath Parent" you have a personal dislike of one person and project that onto any issue he takes a stand on. Most of us focus on the issue.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 12:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is a huge cost to taxpayers. Why should our government be borrowing money to pay for these parasites medical care? It is outragesous.

Commented: Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 @ 1:33 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Yes, let the TWO CANDIDATES debate, without grandstanding politically biased "moderators" trying to be the center of attention and push thing to their favored candidate.

If one or both of the candidates are jacked up on drugs, the public should know it. A drug test is a great idea, and a recent poll shows the American public agrees.

Commented: Monday, June 24th, 2024 @ 11:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Here is another victim of Bidenomics - Rite Aid in bankruptcy, closing 550 stores.
www.breitbart.com

Commented: Friday, June 21st, 2024 @ 8:38 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Affirmative action was widespread in the early 1970s. Everybody now below retirement age would have come up when it was part of the system. That explodes your inherited racial guilt argument.

On top of that, the court case that required stringent racial quotas in all schools came out of Mecklenburg County, NC and was decided in 1970. Maybe it took a year or two to work its way through all the school systems, but everyone below retirement age would have gone to high school when stringent racial quotas were in effect. Again, that demolishes your argument.

The woke crap about inherited racial guilt and trying to call groups of people either "oppressors" or "oppressed" over things that happened over half a century ago is just Marxist crap about dividing our society, straingt out of Herbert Marcuse.

Commented: Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 @ 7:10 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

When it comes to our troops health, cutting corners for things that may be harmful is not something we should condone. Imitation meat is not the same thing as real meat. Being fed that junk would also hurt enlistement.

There are two flavors of Repuvlicans, conservatives and RINOs, the latter of which are also known as Undocumented Democrats or Democrats in Drag. Clearly, Bobbie prefers the fake Repuvlicans like Liz Cheney or Thom Tillis.

Commented: Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 @ 2:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Richardson's concerns on this vandalism in our schools reflects the feelings of many taxpayers in our county. The level of trust in the school system is not great due to their secretiveness and lack of transparency. People want answers but the school system wants to deflect. While they may not be able to give the names of the students, that is not what people are looking for. The school system wants to keep all information behind closed doors while the citizens want government in the sunshine.

Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 8:19 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The elections in Europe were not just a poll, but a sea change in government. Voters tossed out the climate alarmists and replaced them with people who understand the harm that climate alarmism does. And it was younger voters at the forefront of doing that.
The farmers of Europe are to be congratulated on getting the message out against what they aptly call "climate communism".

There is no "tipping point". The history of the Earth shows we have always had alternating cycles of warming and cooling periods. The last warm cycle, the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today and nothing bad resulted. Indeed, the longest and hottest warming cycle, the Holocene Maximum, waw MUCH warmer than today and for three thousand years and nothing bad resulted.

Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 8:52 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Weather happens, Little Bobbie, and should not be politicized by the green left.

The pagan religious cult of Climate Scientology is much like the medieval church. In the medieval church, anything bad that happened was a punishment from God, but if you wanted to sin, you could buy an indulgence from the Pope. Under Climate Scientology, anything bad that happens is a punishment from Manmade Global Warming, and if you want to sin, you can buy an indulgence called a "carbon offset" from the pope of that cult, Al Gore, who has a company selling them.

Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 12:08 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The Earth has always gone through alternating warming and cooling cycles throughout its history. We have been in a natural warming cycle since the end of the last cooling period, called the Little Ice Age in the 19th century. The Earth is not now yet as warm as the last warming cycle, known as the Medieval Warm Period, and nowhere close to the longest and hottest warming cycle, the Holocene Maximum. Nothing bad happened to the planet in either of those cycles. If you want to learn the science that debunks the CO2 climate alarmist theory, watch the British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" www.youtube.com

Commented: Wednesday, June 12th, 2024 @ 1:42 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Jack, graduating seniors would likely all be 18 or at least most of them, and therefore adults. Privacy laws would not stop them being charged as adults for the criminal activity they engaged in. That alone should be sufficient leverage to at least get them or their families to make restitution for the damage they did. School officials thinking taxpayers should absorb that is an outrage. So is the failure to come clean about what is going on with this matter.

Commented: Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 @ 8:24 am By: Concerned Taxpayer