Want More Taxes? Vote for NC Democrats! /Perdue Rallies Support for Tax Hike

Watch Gov. Beverly Perdue announce her $1.5 billion (with a B)  Tax increase, HERE, but please don't do this over dinner!  

Please call your North Carolina Representatives and Senators and tell them NO NEW TAXES.  Personally, your blogger is sick of this taxpayer shakedown.  We must do with less, just like in our own family budgets.

Video from WTVD (Durham).

Hat Tip:  NC Rep. Paul Stam (R-Wake)

UDPATE 3:15 p.m. EDT: Here is Governor Beverly Perdue's spin on it, in a press release from her office.  She is taking her show on the road to rally support.

Gov. Perdue Rallies to "Protect the Classroom"  (Yes, it actually says this!)

Governor Perdue today in Raleigh kicked off a series of rallies across North Carolina to protect public schools in the state budget.

 Below are selected excerpts from her prepared remarks:

“In the last few months North Carolina has been hit by the deepest national crisis in our lifetimes. I’m told we have one of the largest shortfalls in America. It is the largest shortfall in our history – $4.7 billion next year and even more the following year.” …

“I applaud the General Assembly for their work to put a budget together. But – and that’s a big word – in North Carolina we must act boldly to protect the classroom.” …

“We cannot and must not cripple education. Cutting education means cutting short our economic future.” …

“That’s why today I call on the General Assembly to make smart, tough cuts in the budget and to raise the revenue necessary to protect North Carolina’s classrooms.” …

“We will cut deep. We will do more with less. But as state leaders we cannot increase class size, we cannot lay off teachers and we cannot sacrifice our economic future.” 

Additional rallies will be held in Greensboro, Charlotte, Asheville, Greenville and Wilmington.