Speaking of tax burdens....

From the John Locke Foundation, regarding a Center for Local Innovation report.

Excerpt:

"Local government costs rose in most North Carolina counties from FY 2003 to FY 2004, the CLI report found. The median county’s local tax and fee burden equaled 4.6 percent of a typical North Carolinian’s income. That figure was nearly 7 percent higher than the rate for FY 2003, Lowrey said.

'Fiscal Year 2004 saw a significant increase in the local tax burden on North Carolinians,' Lowrey said. “And that increase came on the heels of the substantial increase of the previous year.”

“Regardless of your perspective, this report does show that the cost of local government is continuing to outpace inflation and population growth'....”


Reminds me of the '60s.......

"Let me tell you how it will be;
There's little for you, and lots for me.
'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.

Should your measly stake appear too small,
Be thankful I don't take it all.
'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.


Don't ask me what I want it for
'Cause I expect I'll ask for more.

And you're working for no one
But Me."

-- with apologies to Lennon and McCartney