Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

A blank check to continue funding all federal programs with local taxpayer money is fiscally irresponsible and downright insane. Where was the accounting of which programs are funded, at what cost, and the justification for local taxpayers to be on the hook for them? There may be some expenditures where this is justified, but this should be looked at carefully on a case by case basis.

What we have on our county commission are four spendthrifts, two admitted Democrats, and two Democrats-in-Drag who masquerade as "Republicans", namely "Wrong Way" Walker and "Wrpng Way" Waters.

Commented: Monday, October 20th, 2025 @ 5:44 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Trump should pull the US out of this rogue UN agency, and we should cut off our funding to the UN and ALL its organizations. We should also ban travel by employees of the International Maritime Agency to the US.

Commented: Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 @ 7:36 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That huge LA wildfire is not the only one that has been set deliberately by a climate alarmist. We also need to remember that an illegal alien was caught trying to start a parallel fire while the main one was still burning.

Commented: Friday, October 10th, 2025 @ 6:31 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This election is the latest rejection of climate alarmism. The winning party made opposition to EU climate policy one of its two top issues, pointing to the need for cheaper energy. For one of its allies, that new "Motorist" Party, it was THE top issue. Even the party that will be the largest opposition party, its leading elder statesmen, former president and prime minister Dr. Vaclav Klaus, is a longtime vocal opponent of climate alarmism and has even written books in opposition to it.

Commented: Sunday, October 5th, 2025 @ 9:10 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Our country cannot afford the spendthrift antics of the Democrats. They want to pay for health care for illegal aliens that the American taxpayer should not be responsible for, and they want to make permanent some Covid medical subsidies that are expiring because Biden proposed them as "temporary".

The one good thing about what the Democrats are doing is that not having a budget will allow President Trump to eliminate some of the unnecessary Deep State deadwood in our federal government.

Commented: Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 @ 4:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The MSM media have demonstrated that they are nothing but political mouthpieces for the left. The American public has learned not to trust them. This is yet another example of how they lie through their stinking teeth.

Commented: Friday, September 26th, 2025 @ 10:13 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Randy Walker and Frankie Waters pretended to leave the Democrat Party but their "switch" to "Republican" was as phony as a three dollar bill. They are both still tax and spend Democrats and a menace to Beaufort County taxpayers. They are poseurs who need to be removed from office.

Power drunk bureaucrats like our county manager (and city manager) need to be fired.

Commented: Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 @ 8:01 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

One of the liberal special interests that Whatley prostituted himself for as a partner in that lobbying and public relations firm was Big Solar. Big Solar was also heavily supported by the man who brought Whatley into NC politics, Thom Tillis. This makes Whatley totally unacceptable as a nominee. He is nothing but Tillis 2.0, an establishment hack.

Don Brown has shown he understands energy and that "green energy" is an expensive and unreliable fraud. Brown is on the same side as Trump on energy, and Whatley is NOT. It is unfortunate that whoever has Trump's ear on North Carolina has steered him wrong, but then again, Trump was badly steered wrong on this seat last time, too, when he endorsed Tillis at one of his rallies, which was loudly booed by the MAGA crowd.

Commented: Thursday, September 11th, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Facts don't matter to those obsessed with the cult of Climate Scientology. Their scripture is rigged computer models. They rig the model so it will give the result that "proves" their theory.

One Climate Scientology throry that was put out some years ago was that all of the beaches around the world would be gone by 2024. It is now 2025. Has anyone checked Nags Head or Atlantic Beach lately? In fact has ANY beach anywhere disappeared?

'Nuf said!

Commented: Monday, September 8th, 2025 @ 1:08 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

With the City of Washington's outrageous 28% property tax increase this year, getting rid of them entirely is a great idea. But for revenues, something else would have to be taxed, and the most likely thing there would be consumption through a sales tax or VAT. We also ought to have a cap on local taxes so grasping politicians like the Sadler regime do not clobber taxpayers the way they have this year.

NO politician currently in office in Washington city government should be returned to office. They all are complicit in the tax ripoff and they all need to GO. Lets clean house in Washington in November. The city manager who proposed this outrage also needs his walking papers. Throw the rascals OUT.

Commented: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 @ 3:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

At the same time corrupt Phil Berger was trying to shut down our local shrimping industry, a company that imports shrimp from Red China was undergoing a big expansion in the Norfolk area. Was crooked Berger on the payroll of the Red Chinese trying to cut out local shrimp production to hand the market to them? "China Phil" Berger needs to be voted out of office.

Beaufort County should never forget that Boss Berger gerrymandered our county into a Democrat senate district to gerrymander Senator Bill Cook out of office. The reason? Bill Cook was the leading Senate figure fighting against the "green energy" boondoggle, a boondoggle that Berger was in cahoots with the speical interests to impose on North Carolina.

Phil Berger is an enemy of eastern North Carolina and an enemy of conservatism. He is more devious and evil than even Marc Basnight thought about being. He is far worse than Basnight, but just as much of a legislative dictator.

Commented: Saturday, August 30th, 2025 @ 11:30 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Our taxpayers should NOT be having to subsidize those in our county illegally through welfare. All we should give them is a plane ticket home. I hope President Trump will audit those states with these waivers and try to claw back the American taxpayer dollars they have squandered on illegal welfare for illegal aliens.

Commented: Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 @ 4:49 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

So much of the "green" agenda is in fact environmentally unsound. Wind and solar electricity are other examples of that.

Commented: Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 @ 8:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is fortunate that NC passed a law against this barbaric practice. I remember when ECU Med School was looking at going into the child genital mutilation business to make money.

Commented: Thursday, August 14th, 2025 @ 8:59 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It was on the radio today that Maryland is now experiencing rolling blackouts due to wind and solar not providing enough power. Their coal plants are all gone and they have reduced gas plants. This will likely become endemic like it did in the state of South Australia when their Labour Party state government blew up all their coal plants so they could become the "wind superpower". Now rolling blackouts are an everyday occurence and having a home generator is essential, and they have even had their first statewide blackout due to wind farms shutting down due to strong spring storms.

Wind and solar are for morons and ideologues, oh, and also for RINOs Thom Tillis and Micheal Whatley.

Commented: Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 @ 11:18 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Phil Berger is responsible for pushing this loony left climate alarmist BS in North Carolina. One expects liberal Democrats like Roy Cooper to be for it and woke idiots like Duke Energy trying to get their ESG kudos from the left, but a stab in the back to consumers from a supposed Republican like Berger is hard to take. Good thing that he has a primary next year from the popular Republican sheriff of his home county. Throw the bum OUT!

Commented: Monday, August 11th, 2025 @ 9:22 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Lets not forget that Michael Whatley has been a cheerleader for Big Solar which was one of the clients of his Washington, DC lobbying and public relations firm. We do NOT need him in the US Senate. Don Brown is the conservative choice in the GOP primary.

Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2025 @ 7:37 am By: Concerned Taxpayer