State Treasurer Richard Moore has made a name for himself by helping North Carolinians recover money owed them. Here's a new way to be helpful to millions of taxpayers.
The emerging scandal in Moore County, where school administrators misspent tax dollars and manipulated their test scores, has led to an underwhelming response.
RALEIGH — As recently as two decades ago the federal government routinely took the lion’s share of personal income from highly productive taxpayers. Thanks to the Reagan administration, that situation has changed, a leading public policy analyst says. Four presidents — Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter — were unable or unwilling to tame a tax burden that took more than two-thirds of some citizens’ earned income, said Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth in Washington, D.C., and a contributing editor of National Review. Moore was the keynote speaker at a Headliner luncheon sponsored by the John Locke Foundation on Tuesday.
It's been a quarter of a century since the modern tax revolt began in California, and one of its biggest boosters will be in Raleigh Tuesday to praise -- and to warn.
