Each year in the North Carolina General Assembly, a few people work to allow local control over locally raised taxes. Right now, when a county collects taxes from it's citizens, they are told by the federal government how to spend some of that money. Each year, some people work to get the rule changed. It has not changed.

The rule is regarding Medicaid. The federal government sets the guidelines and determines who is eligible for this program of theft (from productive citizens to non-productive citizens). The federal government decides how much is to be stolen from working people and given to others. But the state of North Carolina then informs the counties that THEY must pay these amounts.

This is another example of bureaucracy gone insane. If I ran a county and raised tax money, then the state and federal government came in and told me how to spend it, I'll tell them to take a long walk off a short pier. Neither the federal government nor the state government should have ANY say in how a local county spends it's money.

North Carolina is the only state in the country that forces it's counties to fund medicare. It's wrong, but the Democrats in North Carolina like it because it gives them another excuse to raise taxes: "Gee, we have to raise your local taxes to pay for medicare -- it's not our fault."

Grow some guts, county commissioners. Tell the state that you're not going to do it. Tell your medicare leeches to ask for their money from the federal government, because the feds are the ones who promised it. It's the good, right, and honorable thing to do.

Where has my country gone?

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