Republican legislative leaders discuss Senate Bill 1052, which would cap General Fund spending at the amount of revenues collected in the preceding calendar year. Any surplus funds would head to savings, capital improvements, repayment of state debt, or taxpayer refunds. Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, House Minority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, and Rep. Dale Folwell, R-Forsyth, cover this bill and other budget-related topics during an April 14, 2009, news briefing.
Opinion
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...