The state House Finance Committee approved HB142 which would cap the gas tax at 37.5 cents. The gas tax is currently at 38.9 but it is projected to fall to 37.5 July 1. The variable part of the gas tax is calculated by the average cost of the wholesale price of gas and diesel fuel [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
The NC Medicaid Fraud Debacle Costs Taxpayers Millions
We all know that millions of dollars are wasted in state government every year (don’t get me started on waste at the federal level). This is a frustrating fact mainly because it is our tax dollars that are being misused. So much waste and fraud have come to exist that when news of a new [...]
HOW VOTER FRAUD IS VIEWED BY BOARD OF ELECTIONS MEMBERS
I was contacted by a sitting member of a county Board of Elections (which shall remain unnamed). I thought it would be enlightening to share part of the exchange with Civitas Review readers. One of the board members comments: … It should be noted that NC is generally voter fraud free (Wake County had 3 [...]
2012 Hurricane Predictions Cause Sadness on the Left
The annual hurricane predictions are in and, surprisingly, the season looks to be only “average,” producing a “normal” number of tempests, according to WRAL (this is a sad day for WRAL, and the liberal mass media in general). I guess the omniscient hurricane predictors were tired of being wrong year after year regarding their predictions, [...]
Government Getting in the Way of Healthcare for the Poor
Each state has their own medical license. The original intention of a medical license was to protect patients from fraudulent “doctors” who may cause them harm or really had no training in a particular field. To most North Carolinians, licensing isn’t an issue. They live in North Carolina and they will see a NC-licensed doctor. [...]
