[RightOnline]

As a Raleigh, NC resident.....let’s just say that I am guardedly optimistic. This is a great State, but we’re taxed to absolute death. I mean, EVERYthing in this State is taxed; no one tax is huge unto itself, but by God it adds up. With the Dummycrats out of power, maybe.....just maybe.....the Gov and his Pubbie legislature will start undoing the damage.

[SMGFan]

If the GOP cannot do it in NC , then cannot do it anywhere?

[randita]

momentous changes marked by new Republican dominance within state government

Unfortunately, the "momentous changes" in state government are not being matched in the way NC votes in national elections. NC went to the dark side in 2008, and barely crawled back to the light last Nov. When NC was not called early, we all knew it was going to be a long, disappointing night.

What's with all these states that go Republican in statewide elections, yet betray us all in national ones?

[no-to-illegals]

IIRC ... the newly elected sec. of treasury floated a trial balloon within the past few days. The newly elected sec. of treasury talked of wanting to broaden the base and add new taxes to goods and services not being taxed, which btw N.C. is running out of goods and services not taxed. Afterward (the addition of new taxes), the new sec. says that overall taxes can be reviewed and then possibly lowered. imho ... a terrible prescription for lowering taxes.

N.C. has been fed this line before and all that happened was more goods and services saw new taxes and then those taxes increased over the years. If politicians are serious, they produce cuts in government, cuts in programs, cuts in funding new programs, cuts, cuts, cuts, and lower the tax rates. Have witnessed double talk and double talking politicians over and over again. The newly elected sec. of treasury or whatever office she holds should shut up and stop talking about new taxes on services and goods. Never works out well for the taxpayer, though those who do not pay, then do pay something, and perhaps this is why the trial balloon was raised, to see if those who pay nothing are paying attention. This is the only good which could come out of this proposal by the newly elected sec. is those paying nothing would be paying more, as would every other person in the state of N.C. The good, bad, and the ugly of taxation and the politicians who offer solutions, which are normally not solutions.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I too live in this town, and I am more enthused about the legislature - especially some newbies like Dr. Jim Fulghum - than I am the new squish governor. He is a huge improvement to Bev Perdue, maybe the dumbest governor in our history, but he is no Jim DeMint or Scott Walker.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My sister and brother in law had to sell their house in Waynesville and move down to Gainesville near me. They just could no longer pay all the taxes.