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Here is what the Raleigh N&O wrote in this week's Notable Numbers on its editorial page:
66: The percentage of the tax cut passed by the 2013 General Assembly that will go to the wealthiest 1 percent of North Carolinians
$513 million: The original estimate for the cost of that 2013 tax plan
$1.1 billion: The latest estimate of its cost to the state
We have an oligarchy ruling our country. We have to oppose the Koch Brothers and Carl Rove and their minions like Thom Tillis. Under Speaker Tillis there was an income transfer from the typical and lower level taxpayers to the top 1% of NC taxpayers. Republicans are disdainful of any transfer from the wealthy to the poor, but they supported in NC a 660 million Dollar transfer of tax money-- our dollars--to the Oligarchy of the 1%. I can think of dozens of better uses for that money for the majority of North Carolina's citizens.
Tillis (one reader called him accurately "Shillis") brags about job creation as a result of these tax cuts, but the NC economic recovery lags and unemployment is still high.
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