Pension Spiking is Corruption

Pension Spiking is Corruption
Post Date December 03, 2013
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by Brian Irving
LPNC Communications Director

Once again, the News and Observer has performed an admirable public service by exposing the exorbitant salaries being paid to select state government employees and the manipulation of the law to increase their pensions.

In a series called Checks without balances, the N&O detailed how four community college presidents, two housing authority directors, and a Town of Cary “tennis pro” collected tens of thousands of dollars in perks and benefits in a scheme designed to circumvent salary caps.

Since state law puts a …

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NC has the best leaders money can buy

NC has the best leaders money can buy
Post Date August 07, 2013
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by J.J. Summerell
Chair, Libertarian Party of North Carolina

Members are appointed to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors because they’ve raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Republican Party, even though some are Democrats.

Directors of the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center, a taxpayer-funded nonprofit agency created by Democrats to help rural communities, award grants to organizations they’re involved with. This practice continues under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

A report by the Democratic state auditor finds that the economic development center awarded $600 million …

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LP: Republicans refuse to end Obamacare

LP: Republicans refuse to end Obamacare
Post Date July 22, 2013
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“Delaying Obamacare is a stay of execution for struggling small businesses and health care consumers in America” — Carla Howell, Libertarian Party executive director

When President Obama announced on July 2 that the employer mandate for Obamacare would be postponed for another year, he opened the door for one more Republican opportunity to repeal this destructive and costly program.

Big Government Republicans posture, pose, and pretend to cut destructive programs and harmful laws, but almost never vote to simply end them.

Why? Because they’re in the pocket of …

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Libertarians Oppose Welfare for (Met)Life

Libertarians Oppose Welfare for (Met)Life
Post Date April 17, 2013
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RALEIGH (April 18) – The awarding of nearly $100 million in “corporate incentives” to MetLife, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, is a classic example of state and local governments playing the game of Reverse Robin Hood, robbing from the poor to give to the rich, a state Libertarian Party spokesman said in a statement today.

J.J. Summerell, Libertarian Party of North Carolina chair, said the party denounces all such corporate welfare as fiscally irresponsible and the practices should be stopped immediately.

Here is …

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