Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Well, NO, Will. The Green New Deal just reeks of fascist economics, NOT capitalism. It is all about government Diktat. Wind, solar, and other "green energy" would not exist without government subsidies, "portfolio standard" requirements of percentage of "green energy", and such. They are essential for expensive intermittent, unreliable "green energy".

The reason it is called "green energy" is all the green taxpayer and ratepayer money flowing into the pockets of the Climate Industrial Complex.

One has to understand the difference between socialist economics and fascist economics. In socialism, government controls the means of production. In fascist economics, the means of production technically stay in private hands but totally under government control.

Commented: Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 @ 8:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

We are about to get another massive electric rate increase due to the politicians going along with the climate activists. NC's Green New Deal, HB951, and its climate provisions pushed by "woke" energy monopoly Duke Energy, is resulting in a 14% rate increase for those who buy directly from Duke. That increase will also hit those who buy from "electriCities" like Washington and Belhaven whose wholesale rates will also go up. Phil Berger rewrote HB951 in the Senate to use the same meghology as the EU's Green Deal, but with harsher terms than Europe. It seeks to eliminate cheap and reliable coal power and replace it with expensive and unrelaiable wind and solar.

Commented: Sunday, May 24th, 2026 @ 10:28 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This dude will make more than a US Senator ($178K) and almost as much as the NC Governor ($203K). Is a county manager in little ole Beaufort County worth that much??

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2026 @ 5:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Mr. Wyman, the biggest issue for most citizens is cutting spending and taxes. We have been gouged by the Sadler regime and we need a change. I notice that you do not address taxes and spending and that concerns me. I concur about the importance of our 2nd Amendment rights, but I have seen too many liberals try to wrap themselves around that while supporting the rest of the liberal agenda.

Commented: Wednesday, May 13th, 2026 @ 9:10 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

There have been hundreds of dire predictions by the climate alarmists that have already passed the time they were supposed to happen, but not a single one of them has ever come true. The climate alarmists have never been anything but liars and scaremongers. People should have figured that out after the Climategate emails were revealed because they showed them to be total scammers and liars.

Commented: Friday, May 8th, 2026 @ 12:07 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is an absolute outrage to taxpayers. Did some bureaucrat not vet them properly or did the applicants lie on their application? Either way, somebody ought to be prosecuted in each one of these cases. Also the money should be clawed back from any state where this happens.

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2026 @ 11:01 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I have heard rumblings that some of the dark political forces in our city may have made threats against Fritz' business. Don't know if that is true, and whether or not it is true, I would expect Fritz to protect his business by denying it. Fritz defending that pair smacks of him trying to placate somebody for something, and that makes those rumblings even more believable.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 2:25 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The key test of this city council will be the tax cuts. Taxpayers need to see at least a 5 or 6 cent cut. A 1 to 3 cent cut would be only window dressing and this council would have failed.

I am concerned about Max Perrault being too chummy with the current leader of the corrupt tax-and-spend Sadler machine. What is going on there?

Commented: Thursday, April 30th, 2026 @ 9:20 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Why is the city manager in a town of less than 10,000 people being paid more than a US Senator, a US Congressman, the Governor, the state Attorney General, and the other members of the Council of State??????? That is just obscene and a taxpayer ripoff.

Commented: Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 @ 12:27 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Elected officials are the ones who are supposed to set policy, and the bureaucrats are the ones who are supposed to carry it out. If a bureaucrat talks about "defending democracy" he is getting out of his lane and into that of the elected officials. Our Washington elected officials need to tell their manager to CUT SPENDING and CUT TAXES and come out with a budget that does that.

Has these ever been a public vote to hire the city manager??????

Commented: Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 @ 1:39 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

How much is Washington paying it's new city manager? Also what about the County manager?

For comparison, a US Senator makes $174,000, the NC governor $165,000, and major Council of State officers like the NC Attorney General, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Treasurer, etc. make $146,000.

A city manager in Washington or a county manager in Beaufort County is a much lower level than any of those. So how much are they being paid?

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 3:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Carbon taxes in the United States is a wet dream of the Democrats. If they get back in power, our taxpayers will be socked with it here. Hooray for the Irish and the French before them in fighting this outrageous nonsense.

Commented: Thursday, April 16th, 2026 @ 1:07 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This city manager seems even worse than the last one. Why is Perault teaming up with Tyre? Tyre is a hard core leftis and does not even really live in Washington.

Bobby Roberson is a straight up guy and a conservative Republican.

Commented: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 @ 2:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Pushing the global warming myth was a feature of the Biden regime. President Trump has clearly stated that his administration does not believe in it. Why do we have so-called Republicans on our school board pushing the Biden global warming hoax? Seems to me they must be "Biden Republicans"! Iowa Republicans are battling this propaganda, so why aren't Beaufort County Republicans on our school board doing so? We do NOT need our students brainwashed by the Greta Thunbergs of the world

Commented: Friday, April 3rd, 2026 @ 7:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Illegal aliens cost taxpayers a bundle. The Trump administration is right to push mass deportation. State officials who give them welfare when federal law does not allow it should be punished and the feds should claw back that money from the states.

Commented: Saturday, March 21st, 2026 @ 5:48 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

From what I hear the Walkers were sticking their noses in lots of races this time, including the commissioner races and the sheriff's race and perhaps others. I hear they were also campaigning hard against Sheriff Hammonds. Hammonds opponent, Kerry Cox was forced to resign after the last sheriff's race for endorsing the Democrat in the general election while holding a party office in the GOP. After this election, Cox has turned all of his campaign sign boards over to the Democrat. This year's Democrat nominee is not qualified, having bounced around all over the state with different law enforcement agencies, never able to make a go of it anywhere. It has been a while since he worked in any type of law enforcement. The sour grapes of Cox is unbecoming.

Both Walkers come up for election again in 2028 and all of their activities in the 2026 primary are likely to motivate a lot of folks to help take them both out of office then. there is a saying that elephants have long memories.

Commented: Thursday, March 19th, 2026 @ 8:13 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Having regular audits of all businesses would be an undue burden on many who do not break the law. However, if it is targeted on industries where hiring of illegal aliens is rampant - meat packers, big farmers, construction, etc., it would be appropriate and well deserved.

Some months ago, ICE came down on a meat packer, who had many of their illegal alien employees picked up for deportation. The company whined about it, but when word got out, they had more Americans applying for those now vacant jobs than they had jobs. The claims that they were "jobs Americans won't do" was proven false.

Commented: Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 11:55 am By: Concerned Taxpayer