Meck Deck blogger Jeff Taylor questions Mecklenburg County government’s plan to increase taxpayer spending on grants targeted toward individual businesses. Taylor offered these comments during an interview with Tom Roussey for an April 16, 2010, WBTV report.
Give it back
Last week the non-partisan Fiscal Research Division of the North Carolina General Assembly forecast yet another $1 billion+ surplus in anticipated tax revenues for the 2024–2025 fiscal year. That’s on top of the $400+ million in surplus collections for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The news, the latest in a decade-long run of tax revenue surpluses,...