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Published: 2012-07-11 15:57:00
Updated: 2012-07-11 17:07:45

McCrory lays out his economic principles for NC


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Republican gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory says North Carolina's economy will improve if he's elected with lower tax rates and a state government that's more responsive to business.

McCrory rolled out a plan Wednesday to fix what he calls a broken state economy at a round-table meeting with business owners in Cary.

"North Carolina’s economic development brand is currently being diminished by high taxes, excessive regulation and broken state government," he said. "Neighboring states are reforming and successfully competing for jobs, while North Carolina remains stuck with the fourth-highest unemployment rate in the nation. We must stick to our principles and grow our economy, because that’s what produces the resources to pay for our teachers, police and firefighters and rebuild our infrastructure."

The proposal repeats much of what he's said on the campaign trail back to his first gubernatorial run in 2008, with some additions. Those include the creation of a public-private partnership that would provide private financing to help small business increase exports.

McCrory also said he would work with lawmakers to modernize the state's tax code and fight to stop what we he called onerous regulations.

Democratic nominee Walter Dalton's campaign has criticized McCrory's platform on incentives.

"Pat McCrory’s platitudes cannot hide the fact that he's against competing with other states for jobs, he supports cuts to schools and wants to limit the scope of community colleges," Dalton spokesman Schorr Johnson said in a statement.


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"democrats are not currently in power in NC and have not been for a while."

The last time the Republicans controlled the NC Legislature before the voters brought about change in 2010 was way back in 1898, that was five years before the Wright Brothers flight in Kitty Hawk.

So if 2 years is a "While" what can the 112 years of the Democrat party's almost uninterrupted period of control of NC since 1898 be called?

How about "A Century plus a dozen years!" Now that is a quite a "while".

Governor McCrory will have lot of work ahead of him.

If voters were to give Pat McCory the benefit of the doubt and support his economic plan for NC, the litmus test for proving whether it might work isn't very good. The GOP has control of the NC General Assembly and so far the State is in no better shape economically then it was before they took over. On a National level Republicans control the House of Representatives and increased their minority in the Senate and Congress still has the lowest poll numbers ever. The GOP candidates theme is elect me and I will make everything better or you can trust me. Just look within our State or around the Nation and ask yourself did Republicans really make it better.

If this man wins NC we will be brought and paid for by the Koch Brothers. Why would we want to do that we need to face the truth NC is a deverse state. We should not let the TP and Koch Brothers take over. Both houses are controlled by the R's governor perdue could do nothing and that's their stragtey all ove. Do you ever why the Koch Brothers wants NC so bad?

"If he will lower my taxes and balance the budget, I will vote for him. The dems have done a bad job with the economy in NC over the yrs. I'd like to see some responsibility. Maybe McCrory can do what the dems can't."

Just FYI: democrats are not currently in power in NC and have not been for a while. Yes, we have a democratic governor, but she is completely powerless because any law she vetoes can usually be overridden by the GOP in the General Assembly, effectively removing all her power. Our taxes are now lower, yet our position is no better.

The combination of McCrory and the current legislature will put NC on the fast track to third-world status. Be prepared to have every bizarre, outlandish idea that oozes out of the GOP hive mind to get signed into law.

Want a state park? Pay for it at the gate! Free education? Who needs it? Community colleges? Raise the tuition to university levels and get the state out of them! Universities? Everyone should pay what students pay at Duke! No more state funding! But hey, at least the rich will have even more money to create jobs for us peons, right? Because that is what the rich do with their money: create jobs! That strategy has worked wonders so far! It's going to be a utopia, I tell you!

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