Same Stuff, Different Year: Easley wants to raise taxes

Why are we not surprised?

Ridiculous items

- $375,000 to establish an office of the State of North Carolina in Shanghai, China
- $15 million to renovate the Mattamuskeet Lodge
- $1 million for the “Freedom Monument”
- $2.7 million for a Polar Bear exhibit at the N.C. Zoo
- $97 million for the Jim Hunt Library at N.C. State

Does it EVER stop?

(via Red Clay Citizen)