Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Locke is clueless or just polishing the turd. The last legislative session was NOT great for those who love liberty. Weak and cowardly legislative leadership blocked the better legislative initiatives to stop abuse of emergency authority by the governor. Yes, Phil Berger and Tim Moore, I am talking about YOU. Worse yet, Berger and Moore used sneaky and dishonest legislative tricks to give us NC's Green New Deal, which is a huge assault on the electric ratepayer and the NC taxpayer. That is the most far reaching bill enacted the whole session, and it is an extreme left bill. The creators of the Green New Deal say it is about building socialism instead of about the environment, and the quislings of the GOP legislative leadership took a major step to build socialism in North Carolina. That bill alone made this an absolutely horrible session for those who love liberty.

DOWN WITH BERGER, DOWN WITH MOORE.

Commented: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 8:54 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

A lot of the problem is the way Congress has crammed all spending into one massive "must pass" bill. It is impossible to get a handle on all of this waste as a result. Weak GOP leadership of McConnell and McCarthy / Ryan / Boehner is a big part of this. McConnell even uses the process to get pork barrel for himself.

Commented: Saturday, December 25th, 2021 @ 10:40 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Relying on weather-dependent sources of electricity like wind and solar for baseload is madness. A number of countries have already suffered large scale blackouts as a result when wind farms suddenly quit producing.

The "feast or famine" nature of solar and particularly wind is also a big problem. Some times of the year, like heat waves in summer and even more so cold snaps in winter correspond with periods when wind or solar or both are not producing power. High demand coupled with little wind / solar output is a recipe for either very high costs to consumers, blackouts, or brownouts. Some places that have installed lots of solar / wind routinely are seeing managed rolling blackouts because there is simply not enough power being produced to serve all customers so they rotate who is being cut off.

The other side of the coin is also a problem. There are times of the year, such as in Spring, when there are great conditions for producing wind / solar but reduced demand since it is outside both the heating and cooling seasons. In some systems, the utilities are forced to buy this unneeded power from wind / solar operators and then either try to sell it at a loss somewhere or just dump it. In others, like the UK, the utilities are forced to pay the wind / solar operators for the power they could have made, but the operators turn off their turbines. In either case, the cost is passed on to the consumer.

Forcing wind and solar on end user electric customers is an extremely anti-consumer move because it costs consumers dearly.

Commented: Tuesday, December 21st, 2021 @ 3:07 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Ted Budd is doing exactly what Republicans ought to be doing. Put up legislation in Congress that makes the Democrats there own Biden's failing policies. Put the Congressional Democrats fingerprints on them, too. Quite the opposite of McConnell, Burr, and Tillis who are caving in and helping Biden pass his radical agenda. Ted Budd is who NC needs as our new US Senator to replace liberal Richard Burr.

Commented: Friday, December 17th, 2021 @ 7:48 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This bill advances Biden's radical agenda. Why would ANY real Republican vote for it? This is the third major vote where Tillis and Burr have helped advance Biden's radical agenda. Twice, I have held my nose and voted for Tillis in the general election as the lesser of the evils, but I will not make that mistake again. There is not that much difference between a Biden "Republican" like Tillis and a Biden Democrat. They are peas in a left wing pod. The same goes for Burr and Tillis' sidekick McCrory, who is no different from them. If McCrory is the nominee, I will leave the Senate race blank, as I should have done when Tillis ran. This betrayal of Republican voters in selling out to Biden is disturbing and disgusting.

Commented: Thursday, December 9th, 2021 @ 3:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Every one of these "Biden Republican" traitors needs a primary. My disgust at our own two jokes of Senators, Tillis and Burr, seems to grow daily. I regret that I held my nose to vote for them, something I absolutely will not do for their soul mate Pat McCrory. If McCrory is the nominee, I just will not vote in the Senate race, or I will write in for Jesse Helms. And McConnell? He is little more than a front man for Red China, which set his wife's family up in the shipping business. We need Senators who will dump McConnell and get us a real leader in the Senate. The cowardice of these sellouts is just appalling.

Commented: Friday, December 3rd, 2021 @ 7:27 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Build Back Better is a slogan used by globalist politicians around the world and was coined by the globalist totalitarian World Economic Forum, another of whose slogans is "you will own nothing and you will be happy".

Commented: Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021 @ 7:28 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Hopefully, Virginia will disentangle themselves from the schemes of the Climate-Industrial complex. Otherwise, their electric ratepayers and likely their taxpayers will get skewered. Radical Democrats did it to Virginia, but establishment Republicans did the very same thing to us in NC, and that is completely disgusting. Getting NC out of this mousetrap is going to be problematic, because we have a Green New Deal lefty governor, and too many Green New Deal legislators, most all of the Democrats and way too many who CLAIM to be "Republican". Germany's wind and solar is well below 50% and they are paying three times what NC pays in residential electric rates. What will this idiotic 70% wind and solar do to NC electric rates? I cringe to think of it. The phony "Republicans" responsible for it should hang their heads in shame. Why bother with a GOP majority when they just adopt the policies of AOC and Joe Biden?

Commented: Sunday, November 21st, 2021 @ 7:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This tax increase is part of Biden's War on the Middle Class. Bidenflation is another part of it. So are the measures he took to deliberately raise our gas prices. Of course, our own NC RINOs went along with their Green New Deal HB951 which will give NC huge electric rate increases in the coming years. Between Democrats and RINOs, the middle class is in real trouble.

Commented: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 3:08 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

More Bidenflation.

Commented: Saturday, November 13th, 2021 @ 9:07 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is nothing other than the Green New Deal. Other countries that have gone this route have found that wind and solar are NOT reliable due to the intermittent nature of both, and they are certainly not cheap. Pushing wind and solar is why Germans pay three times the residential rates for electricity that North Carolinians do now. A recent contract for offshore wind electricity signed by a utility in New York set whole prices for that electricity at four and a half times the prevailing wholesale rate for conventional electricity.

The Republican legislative leaders who sold North Carolina electric customers down the river on this bill need to be primaried out of office.

Commented: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 4:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Cooper is little more than a flunky of the Climate-Industrial Complex and will parrot whatever their narrative happens to be. Electric cars are in fact dangerous. GM recalled every Chevy Bolt that has been built because of their propensity to have their lithium batteries spontaneously combust. They advised customers who choose to keep their cars to park them at least 50 feet from any occupied building or any other car. Teslas are also known to spontaneously combust but don't expect them to do any recalls on that as it would kill their whole business. Lithium smoke is highly toxic and every injury from a Chevy Bolt fire has been from breathing the smoke of the lithium battery fire. Every time you board an aircraft, you are asked if you are carrying any lithium batteries, as they are not allowed on planes due to the nature of even small lithium batteries to spontaneously combust. A passenger plane went down in the Florida Everglades some years ago, killing all aboard, when lithium batteries carried as cargo spontaneously combusted in flight. So why would we want a very big lithium battery parked beside our house or in our garage? Let Comrade Cooper park one by his house (his private house that is; I would hate to see the governor's mansion go up in flames).

Commented: Friday, October 29th, 2021 @ 8:03 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is really too bad that the RINO leadership in the NC legislature does not comprehend what is presented in this video. They just brown nosed Roy Cooper, AOC, and Greta Thunberg to cram NC's very own Green New Deal down our throats. Phil Berger and Tim Moore should be ashamed of themselves, but now they want to brown nose Roy Cooper again on the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, too. With sell out Republicans like Berger and Moore, who needs Democrats?

Commented: Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 @ 2:59 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Well, I guess that explains some of the sign clusters I see. This word needs to get out to more voters. Washington does not need this.

Commented: Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 @ 11:34 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

US Senate Republicans are fighting back against Mitch McConnell's cave in and betrayal on the debt limit. Ted Cruz, conservative, and Lindsay Graham, moderate, were both on Hannity this afternoon and they are working to get rank and file GOP US Senators to stand up to McConnell and not cave in to the Democrats. Hannity made a key point that this betrayal shows that we need new GOP Senate leadership. McConnell is just not acceptable. Raising the debt limit is all above passing the monstrous $3.5 Trillion Green New Deal bill.

Speaking of Green New Deals, we desperately need our NC legislators to fight back against our sell out "leadership" in the legislature that is trying to surrender to Roy Cooper on his ripoff Green New Deal for North Carolina. Any GOP legislator who votes for H951 needs to be tarred and feathered and run out of the party on a rail.

Back to McConnell, he is just doing the business of Communist China. The ChiComs set his wife and father in law up in the shipping business, providing the ships, crews, and cargos that have made them a lot of money. China wants the US and its economy hamstrung with expensive and unreliable wind and solar, for which they make the equipment, while the ChiComs use cheap and reliable coal fired power plants, of which they currently have hundreds under construction. McConnell is just following orders from Beijing.

I'd bet if someone really searched, they would find China connections to Tim Moore and Phil Berger, too.

Commented: Thursday, October 7th, 2021 @ 5:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

AOC's Chief of Staff admitted that the Green New Deal is about building socialism, not about the environment. We will see how many undercover socialists we have in the GOP legislative caucus when they vote on whether to build socialism through HB951. Europe is already getting hit hard by bowing to Greta Thunberg's socialism there, and the hits to citizens have just started. Conservatives may have a lot of work to do in the primaries in NC, but lets keep our fingers crossed that most of the Republican legislators wise up on this disaster before it is too late.

Since Duke Power has shown itself to be thoroughgoing leftists, one good solution is to allow competition in electric providers in NC.

Commented: Monday, October 4th, 2021 @ 1:31 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Parents should demand that their local school boards cut all ties with this fascist organization that wants to ideologically indoctrinate students. Starve the beast. Cut their membership income. Is the Beaufort County School Board a member? The public schools are getting so awful that perhaps the only solution is to abolish them and just give vouchers to parents for private schools.

Commented: Saturday, October 2nd, 2021 @ 7:05 am By: Concerned Taxpayer