Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Our nation was founded because the people were tired of being overtaxed. The series of taxes that led to the Revolution were adopted by the British parliament, but since George III was the face of the British government, he was the target of people's anger. He certainly did not object to those taxes, so that was justified.

The Democrats of today tax us more than the British parliament did in those days, so it is the Democrats who are the modern tax tyrants.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 3:49 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tillis is worthless. He has been in the pocket of the wind / solar grifters since he was in the NC House, a special interest asset. He does not represent the people of North Carolina. He is also looking out for his own pocketbook because he owns a good bit of stock in a small bank in Mecklenburg County that specializes in lending to the wind and solar boondogglers.

Don Brown for US Senate in GOP primary 2026. He's one of us.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 10:37 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

There is probably a lot of this to be found in Biden grant making operations. Other agencies ripe for this would be EPA and Department of Energy, but really all through the corrupt Biden regime. The more than are found and prosecuted the better. While USAID is probably the most corrupt, it is not alons.

Commented: Saturday, June 14th, 2025 @ 6:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Good for the Polish court! Those EU climate alarmist laws give expensive and unreliable electricity. They were responsible for the recent nationwide blackouts in Spain and Portugal, as well as huge electric rate increases all over Europe. What North Carolina should be concerned about is that the actions of RINOs Phil Berger and Tim Moore in passing NC's own Green New Deal, HB951, North Carolinians will be popped harder for this nonsense than Europeans.

Commented: Thursday, June 12th, 2025 @ 1:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Google is a woke company and is anti-American. It has been helping the Red Chinese with AI which has military applications. Conservatives should avoid them like the plague. Its censorship regime is really obnoxious against conservatives. NEVER GOOGLE.

Commented: Monday, June 9th, 2025 @ 2:11 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Beaufort County is in the middle of an education boondoggle of school consolidations which will cost out taxpayers money while harming education in our county. I wish more school board members would come out from under Cheeseman's spell. They represent the taxpayers and parents, not the superintendent.

Commented: Monday, June 2nd, 2025 @ 4:51 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

VZ: The lack of legal counsel by the school board at public hearings is bad enough, but ever worse is the apparent lack of legal counsel in their multi-million dollar school construction project in Washington. If legal counsel had been involved they would not have had that half million dollar blunder on not owning 4 acres of the school site.

Now, they are dealing with a construction company with a long history of cost overruns and do not have legal counsel involved in their meetings with them. I dread to think how much that might eventually cost us. Heck, they even leave the one local county commissioner with engineering and contract experience on major projects, Hood Richardson out of the loop. Instead, they send in Frankie Waters, whose business experience consists of running Tri-County Telephone during the time it was run into the ground and had to be sold off. This is not going to end well for taxpayers.

They had Cheesburger play real estate appraiser on their "fix" on the 4 acre fiasco. Is he playing lawyer, too? He is not qualified for either.

Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 11:39 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Pushing the Green New Deal is what we would expect from Bernie Sanders or AOC. Tillis is way to the left of the NC mainstream. But sometime back I saw a Congressional rating that actually had Tillis as more to the left than Sanders, based on their Senate voting records. Tillis is too liberal for North Carolina and needs to get his waling papers in the 2026 primary. He has worn out his welcome with NC Republican voters.

Commented: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 @ 5:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Killing off Snowden is not about money. That is a false flag raised by Cheeseman, whose ludicrous numbers on that score are very seriously flawed. Of course, Cheeseman's blunders with the Washington mega elementary school show that he has absolutely no management or financial competence in the first place. It is all about the leftist education establishment's agenda to kill off community and neighborhood schools. By centralizing education, they can control it and push it in the woke directions they want. Anyone who votes for school consolidation is either a flaming liberal or dumb as a brick.

Commented: Monday, May 26th, 2025 @ 2:16 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Whatley, like Tillis would be certain to be a tax and spend Republican. Indeed, with his background as a paid mouthpiece for special interests, Whatley may even be worse.

Tillis' key assistance to Biden's big spending spree should never be forgotten or forgiven. Along with other Biden Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Tillis voted to let Biden's big spending fake "Infrastructure" bill pass through the normal process. That was bad enough in and of itself, but it set up something even worse. It preserved the "reconciliation" slot that year for Biden to pass the outrageous Green New Deal disguised as the "inflation Reduction Act."

Tillis has disqualified himself from consideration by fiscal conservatives because of his fingerprints all over Biden's big spending spree. Whatley would probably be even worse. Surely the NCGOP has somebody we can rally around and get excited about for 2026, but this badly flawed pair are NOT it.

This Don Brown, however, sounds interesting. I would like to learn more about him.

Commented: Saturday, May 24th, 2025 @ 2:57 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate alarmists have been attacking pet ownership recently and have attacked livestock farming for years. They want to force people to only eat fake meat or not to eat meat at all. These shrill nannies are really a religious cult - Climate Scientology.

Commented: Friday, May 23rd, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Japan's central bank has been playing with fire longer than The Fed and yesterday things took a really bad turn for them economically as a result of their high government and central bank debt. They started many of the techniques The Fed in using here but have been doing them longer. Now it is about to blow up their economy with a debt problem far worse than Greece had. We need to learn from their mistakes.
www.zerohedge.com

Commented: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 @ 3:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wind and solar also produce electricity that is much more expensive than conventional electricity. It is also highly unreliable and prone to blackouts. Ask the people of Spain and Portugal that had the most recent nationwide blackout caused by "green" energy a couple of weeks ago.

Commented: Sunday, May 18th, 2025 @ 12:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That bill falls way short on the spending cuts America needs if we are going to save the dollar. It also fails to end the tax on social security benefits, which is highly unfair double taxation. What I hear on the radio is that the problem is the congressional leadership. This is a huge blunder if they fail to take this opportunity for needed budget cuts.

Similarly, the recision bill to cut federal programs already approved seems to be stuck in Congress. We should not tolerate these leadership failures.

Commented: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 @ 3:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Simple, Van Zant. They do not want to be confused by facts because their little mings are already made up.

Commented: Monday, May 12th, 2025 @ 9:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tillis needs to go. Brown sounds like he would make a much better senator, but can he raise the money to defeat Tillis? I hope so. Tillis will be flush with special interest money since he is a special interest poodle in the senate.

Commented: Saturday, May 10th, 2025 @ 7:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

In addition to the Antarctic, there has also been an increase in the sea ice in the Artic, which Al Gore and others claimed would be ice free by now. Gore and his mad scientist buddies speak with a forked tongue.

Commented: Thursday, May 8th, 2025 @ 3:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer