We can at least say here in Guilford County that we weren’t presented with a county and a city bond package aren’t on the same ballot, as they might be down in Charlotte. But having one on the primary ballot and another on the general ballot is still too close for my comfort.

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The Meck Deck’s Jeff Taylor takes a look at the debt bomb waiting to explode down there. Take heed, Greensboro’s voters, especially when you consider the haphazard way in which the city’s bond package apparently was put together.

By the way, it’s no coincidence that Guilford County, deeper and deeper in bond debt and desperate for funding sources, decides to tax pharmaceutical samples. In an N&R op-ed, Dr. Dennis Kohut responds:

At the risk of raising the ire of the Guilford County Tax Department and placing my practice on the radar screen for an audit, I would like to offer the following commentary on the interpretation of North Carolina statute G.S. 105-273 (8a), dated May 26, 2006. Based on this N.C. Department of Revenue interpretation, county auditors have chosen to tax the drug samples in the offices of the Guilford County physicians.

I believe the basic premise of this statute is flawed. Let me remind everyone, the samples are given to the physicians free and in turn are given to our patients free! What is the tax value of “free”? Not since our county has chosen to tax the “free” rain (Google: N.C. rain tax) have I seen the likes of this.