Education or advocacy?
David N. Bass writes in Carolina Journal Online about a subject Skip Alston raised here:
Whether public officials are improperly advocating for bond or tax proposals on the May 6 ballot.
Bass reports:
"They are spending tax dollars so that they can get more tax dollars," said Tim Kent, executive vice president of the N.C. Association of Realtors, an organization opposed to a land transfer tax that four counties will vote on this year.
There's a fine line between advocacy and information.
As I've noted before, however, Guilford County government is scrupulously providing information about the costs of the bond and tax proposals on the ballot here.
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Bass reports:
"They are spending tax dollars so that they can get more tax dollars," said Tim Kent, executive vice president of the N.C. Association of Realtors, an organization opposed to a land transfer tax that four counties will vote on this year* Doug
Just love it when the country is going down tubes big time and some greedy republican real estate dude thinks stoping a real estate transfer tax will give you a Paradise in North Carolina tax free. Wonder where this republican dude was 5 years ago when this country got stuck with 3 trillon dollars of paper currency debt?
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
News that the IMF wants to sell 400 tonnes of gold saw the funds unloading positions and sending the yellow metal down $14.
The sale would be currently valued at $13 billion and total slightly over 14 million ounces.
The Internation Monetary Fund said the proposal was part of an effort to close a projected $400 million shortfall over the next few years and includes spending cuts of $100 over three years and paring as many as 100 jobs.
The board’s plan will still need US congressional approval as well as legislative action from many of the 184 IMF member nations.
The IMF also predicted that financial losses from the US mortgage crisis could total $945 billion, far above the $232 billion already written down by banks and securities firm.
Posted on April 8, 2008 6:52 PM