Libertarian Party Cries 'Foul!' over Easley's Pork
The Libertarian Party of North Carolina strongly
condemns the NC House's preliminary vote to spend $20
million in taxpayer money on the corporate giveaway
program that is H1352. This bill is designed less to
help North Carolinians than it is to reelect Governor
Easley on the fiction that giving money to large
corporations to buy jobs for a few people constitutes
"economic stimulus". Real stimulation of the economy
comes from getting government out of the way of
businesses especially the small businesses that are the
backbone and major employers in our state. Forcing
taxpayers to bribe large corporations to come to North
Carolina is not why these legislators were elected.
Most dismaying about this bill is the broad 'bipartisan
support' that seems to exist for using taxpayers money
to further both Republican and Democratic political
aspirations, as evidenced by the collaboration of
cospeakers Black and Morgan to pass it.
We hope that the 99 State House Representatives who
voted for H1352 will reconsider their stand before the
final vote on Monday. Their responsibility is to
safeguard the rights of their constituents including
the right to security in their property, rather than
squandering tax dollars on illadvised economic policy
for campaign talking points. Voting for this
legislation is both an insult and an injury to the
average North Carolina family and to small businesses
throughout the state.
We also urge NC Senators should the bill make it to
their chamber to reject this blatant transfer of the
property of North Carolina residents to large
out-of-state corporations.
"This bill represents nothing less than a welfare
program for large corporations at the expense of North
Carolina families," says the Libertarian Party's state
chair and gubernatorial candidate Barbara Howe.
We urge voters who are angry about this transfer of
wealth from taxpaying families and small businesses to
large corporations to remember this in November and
vote for the Libertarian Party nominee for State House
or Senate in their district, and to cast a vote for
Barbara Howe for governor to send a message to
Democrats and Republicans alike that North Carolinians
want to keep what is their own, and stimulate their own
household economies rather than the campaign of
Governor Easley.
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