Quick Hits: Perdue budget reaction

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on March 18, 2009 - 11:13am.
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* Greensboro News-Record columnist Doug Clark says that despite cuts this year, Gov. Beverly Perdue's 2010-11 budget would be the biggest ever.

* Jordan Schrader lists the professions whose licensing fees would go from $50 to $200. It includes massage therapists, CPAs, embalmers and "the art of healing."

* Asheville blogger Ashvegas gives Perdue a shoutout for posting the entire line-item budget online. "I love this kind of detail." 

* Conservative advocate Francis De Luca argues that Perdue's plan "proposes no long term fixes for the problem of chronic overspending." 

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Re: Quick Hits: Perdue budget reaction

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on March 18, 2009 - 4:49pm.

Um, the descendants of people who were sterilized?

— RTB 

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Re: Quick Hits: Perdue budget reaction

Submitted by lpetrou on March 18, 2009 - 4:42pm.

We have a budget deficit so what do we do? We increase spending and depend on raising fees (taxes) and "free" money from Washington. On top of that let's just pay reparations to those individuals and/or their descendants who were sterilized. Yea that makes a lot of sense. Guess I never took Democrat economics.

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Re: Quick Hits: Perdue budget reaction

Submitted by FFC1304 on March 18, 2009 - 4:18pm.

the dramatic increase of license fees is humiliating...more domination from the ORIGINAL party of SLAVERY!

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Re: Quick Hits: Perdue budget reaction

Submitted by tangoz on March 18, 2009 - 11:50am.

Relying on a temporary measure like the Spendulous bill to cover a budget gap brought on by irresponsible spending is in it'self irresponsible. What is Perdue and her Democratic buddies going to do in fiscal year 2012? The Democrats ahve created a dependent state made up with victim classes.

Eliminating the Golden Leaf funds taxpayer funding would free up over $400 million this year. And it would technically free up some money next year because we would npt (taxpayers) contribute to it.

While we are at it will someone explain to me what Obama has against the free-enterprise culture of America? We did not get this powerful economically using European Socialism as our model.

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