They Taxed Us Too Much!

They taxed us too much…again!


Well, well! North Carolina is looking at a surplus of $400 million dollars!

Know what that means? It means, dear hearts, our lawmakers taxed us too much!!!

Now, before they huddle and decide how to spend that surplus… as they always do, permit me, please, to make a suggestion:

“Give the money back! It’s not the state's! It belongs to us and we want it back!!! Give the surplus back to the NC taxpayers in the form of tax rebate checks!"

While I’m at it, I’d like to suggest a couple of other things as well. Reduce our taxes, so you don’t continue to take too much of our money. Reduce spending, so you won’t need as much of our money. It’s elementary.

The state has no money… none! The state manufactures nothing. It produces nothing. So, how does it lay claim to our money? Because, fellow “tar heel”, we allow it.

Maybe it’s time to look at doing away with the state income tax in North Carolina. Our sister state, to the south, is investigating that possibility right now. If they do it in South Carolina, how long do lawmakers, north of the border, think the citizens of North Carolina will allow them to continue picking our pockets? Not long, I assure you.

I can hear the threats coming now from the State Legislative Building in Raleigh. “If we cut taxes we’ll have to reduce services to the citizens of the state”.

OK. Do it.

Go ahead and cut taxes and reduce services to us! Heck, I’ll bet the majority of the citizens of this state would vote the same way!

I think we’d be surprised at how many of the services, supplied by the state to her people, (at the expense of the people, of course) we can do without!

This would be a bold excursion into uncharted territory by our state officials. They would be going where no NC State Lawmaker has gone before. Actually listening to their constituents… and responding, affirmatively, to their suggestions. What an experience! What a joy! What a delight.

What a DREAM!!

Of course it’ll never happen in North Carolina. Lawmakers are addicted to our money. It is a source of power for them…doling out funds to organizations which support them, etc, etc.

Maybe it’s time for a little cold turkey for our tax addicts in Raleigh!

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”