Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

It is high time our legislators put the brakes on this "climate" nonsense that is jacking up our power bills. The first blow, the "portfolio standards" was done by a Democrat legislature but Thom Tillis as GOP House Speaker blocked a Republican effort to repeal it, thus leaving that rotten scheme in place. Then the GOP itself knifed ratepayers in the back by allowing "leadership", RINO Senate boss Phil Berger and RINO House Speaker Timmy Moore to ram through Berger's rewrite of HB951, which was NC's Green New Deal. Shame on them! It is a huge victory that socialist Berfer was defeated in his GOP primary this year.

Commented: Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 @ 4:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Van Zant, you are right. The vote to substantially raise taxes was 3 to 1, with Joe Davis the only NO vote. There is lots of fluff in that tax increase budget, as there was in the last one. Perrault actually denied at last night's meeting that he had even run on the Tax Cut Team. I am sure that is news to voters who voted for him.

Perrault's other interesting line was to accuse Joe Davis of only wanting to reduce his own taxes. The reality is that a successful young businessman like Davis can afford his taxes a heck of a lot more than our senior citizens on fixed incomes, but he still cares about those senior citizens. Perrault apparently does not. Perrault owns no property in the city and thus is exempt from the tax burden he is imposing on others, including those senior citizens.

Commented: Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 @ 1:10 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What is going on right now to rig the elections in California shows what an out of touch Democrat lackey that Thom Tillis is. Our elections are being corrupted and the SAVE America Act would help stop that process.

Commented: Sunday, June 7th, 2026 @ 1:54 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

While the far left likes to throw around the term "fascist", none of them seem to understand that fascism had a rigid economic doctrine, and today's left very often follows fascist rather than socialist economic doctrine. The climate alarmist movement is one particular example of that, and I have seen some aptly call it "eco-fascism".

Government putting its thumb on the scales is the opposite of capitalism. Government Diktat is the only thing that makes the Climate Industrial Complex function. It could not stand on its own two feet to compete under a free enterprise system.

You might want to learn more about what fascism really is before thinking that it just means having a dictator in charge. If you do, you will learn that the modern left's policies here in America are much closer to classical fascist economic doctrine than to classic socialist economic doctrine.

Will, neither you nor I are far left, but it is the far left that likes to throw around the term "fascist" without understanding what it actually means.

Commented: Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 @ 7:43 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Befuddled, you are correct that most of those "wood waste" so-called "renewable energy" plabnts actually burn whole trees. That leads to deforestation, and actually produces more CO2 than burning coal.

It is not just such plants located here. North Carolina trees are being cut down, ground up, and made into wood pelets which are shipped out through Morehead City, to be used in "wood waste" electric plants in Europe.

Commented: Sunday, May 24th, 2026 @ 8:12 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Here's another one/ The Attorney General of North Carolina is paid $168K. Should we pay a Beaufort County manager tens of thousands of dollars MORE than that? The AG has to have a LAW degree which is a higher degree than a pathetic Masters of Public administration.

Commented: Friday, May 22nd, 2026 @ 3:53 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Taxpayers need to show up at both the city and county hearings on the budget / taxes. On the city council, we have two who promised us, and they need to be held to their promises. Did Brabo ever make a promise? On the county commission, we have three who vote for the taxpayers and four who have nothing but contempt for taxpayers - Rliberal RINOs andy Walker and Frankie Waters, and the two Democrats

What was done to take Nick Fritz off the board should shock the community to turn deciseviely against those responsible..

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 @ 1:55 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

When Perrault ran for council, he told us he was on the tax cut team. Now he seems to have switched teams to the tax-and-spend team, coached by Comrade Tyre. If Perrault is to have any future credibility, he needs a quick course correction back to the course he assured voters he would take. He has been lambasting his own team mate while buddying up to the coach of the opposing team. Can he spell B-E-N-E-D-I-C-T A-R-N-O-L-D ?

Commented: Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 @ 6:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Agreed, Washingtonian.

The Sadler candidate has emerged for the council seat. He is Roland Wyman, a liberal city politician who is friendly with the Sadler machine. Wyman can absolutely NOT br trusted on taxes. He is the polar opposite of Nick Fritz. Taxpayers need someone who will follow Fritz's mandate from voters on taxes and spending. Putting a tax and spend politician like Wyman in that seat would be spitting in the face of taxpayers and voters.

Commented: Thursday, May 7th, 2026 @ 11:47 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The rumblings I heard did not specify the nature of the threat, but if it were a possible boycott, a common tactic of the left, then beating a hasty retreat would be the path of least resistance.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 6:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Perrault letting himself get sucked into Trye's war with Bobby Roberson, the only insider in city government I trust, was the first sign of a problem. Tyre fanning the flames of a split between Davis and Perrault was the biggest problem, and both of them got suckered into that situation. Then they go and hire a career bureaucrat with a questionable history and pay him more than a US Senator to be a city manager of a town of under 10K population. That scoundrel Tyre has played them like a fiddle..

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 12:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Rep. Cunningham's move makes perfect sense. The black population is much more highly impacted on jobs and housing by illegal aliens than the white population. What does not make sense is the other black legislators staying on the Democrat plantation on this issue.

Commented: Saturday, April 25th, 2026 @ 1:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

According to their website, this woke "Scholastic" group is holding one of their "book fairs" at John Cotton Tayloe Elementary School here in Beaufort County this week.

Commented: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 @ 8:17 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I concur that the vote on budget / taxes will be Perrault's last chance to get right with the voters who put him in office. After that, his defection to the dark side of Washington politics will be the end of his political career. He still has a chance to save it, but it is getting down to the short rows. The Sadler machine is a corrupt tax and spend monstrosity. Does he really want to align with that?

Tyre was clever in promoting a personality split between Davis and Perrault, but Perrault ought to have the brains to figure out that he is being used.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 11:51 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wind and solar electricity means our rates will go up, as they already have thanks to Democrats and RINOs pushing this nonsense. It is the reason that wind and solar obsessed Germany pays three times the residential electric rates that we do. It is a financial disaster for ratepayers as well as an environmental disaster.

Commented: Thursday, April 16th, 2026 @ 1:12 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What Washington needed as a city manager was someone with a sharp pencil able to cut through all the bloat and waste, cut spending, and cut taxes. We need someone with a good track record of doing just that. Instead, they give us a guy who is clearly a bureaucrat's bureaucrat. That is what Washington does NOT need. We have had way too much spending under the previous regime and a lousy city manager who was a big part of the problem.

Tyre was also a big part of the problem that got us in this mess, and any elected official who kisses his ass is absolutely worthless.

This is all so sickening.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 2:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The rats are leaving the sinking SS Global Warming. Gates and Fink are a pretty ugly but big pair of rats.

Commented: Sunday, April 5th, 2026 @ 8:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer