New at the Civitas Institute’s website is an article contrasting Gov. Perdue’s attitude toward taxing Hollywood millionaires and working class North Carolinians. A sample:
Picture these two people: one is a wealthy Hollywood studio executive looking to film another Disney blockbuster and add to the billions in revenue for his company, the other is a single mother wanting to buy a Disney movie from the discount bin for her child’s birthday.
Which one does Gov. Perdue think deserves a tax break, and which one does Perdue think should pay more taxes?
Last week’s headlines cleared up any doubt about the answer.
Read the whole article here.
she is trying to bring NC jobs…
How does a double-digit increase in the sales tax “bring NC jobs”?
better schools and the film industry brings jobs… duh- Republicans have a hard time with economic realities and since when do THEY care about single moms or kids? also the dbl-digit figure is highly hyperbolized as is most of the propaganda churned out by art pope and civitas
gee brain couldn’t stand the truth so blocked my comments… too funny!!
Your comment contains a couple of faulty premises: 1)pumping more money into the currrent education establishment makes schools better – history has shown that not to be the case (simply look at skyrocketing spending trends compared to flat achievement levels and 2)film incentives “brings jobs” – the Tax Foundation found that not to be the case (http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/25706.html
Even so, if you want more money for schools, why tax the working class (sales tax) instead of Hollywood fat cats?
Why not just support the tax increase? When Republicans raised gas by 4 cents a gallon they said infrastructure was important… of course the fact that the asphalt lobbyists contributed heavily to Phil Berger’s campaign had nothing to do with that right Brian? a faulty premise would be abandoning our kids so some fat cats in Raleigh can pay back their masters…. I for one am still of the mindset that real Americans think a million votes are worth more than a million dollars an ideal the conservatives have abandoned… now they just troll for the biggest donors.. ugh-shameless but kudos to you Brian- all your other propagandists buddies on this site block my comments especially when they point to the obvious truths your site seeks to hide.
plus disclosure and some degree of journalistic competence should lead you to use an unbiased organization for data not one like the tax foundation which has ties to conservatives like the kochs… once on the board of directors.. sites like this one used to rightly be called yellow journalism
Ugh, still avoiding answering questions and offering anything meaningful – just more partisan mindless rants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7w64fbqYQY
And stop lying about your comments being blocked.
oh brian you accuse me of not offering anything meaningful yet you spout partisan propaganda as if NC’s citizens are too ignorant to see your pope serving propaganda and yes your other cohorts block my posts… and you post youtube videos to support your partisan agenda WOW!! waiting for you to reply on the Berger/asphalt connection….
FYI So pumping 80million into Wilmington’s economy is a bad idea? hmm… thank God for Bev Perdue she might just save this state from the Conservatives trying to destroy it..
nhttp://www.wwaytv3.com/2011/10/27/iron-man-3-coming-to-wilmington-expected-to-pump-80m-into-local-economy
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/28/2728142/a-super-coup-wilmington-lands.html