Got my state refund check yesterday. The (relative) promptness is probably due to the fact that I don’t have a large family:
The North Carolina Department of Revenue has a surprise for large families this tax season — an audit. Some who got the notice from a state tax auditor feel it’s a way for the state to hold on to their money as long as possible instead of sending them a timely refund check.
Taxpayers who claimed eight or more exemptions on their state return are being asked to submit additional documentation on their dependents, including copies of birth certificates and Social Security cards. Failure to comply means a forfeited tax refund.
On a semi-related note, George Will — appearing in today’s N&R —- rips the Obama up one side and down the other:
For the first time, neither sales nor property nor income taxes are the largest source of money for state and local governments. The federal government is.
…..The Obama administration’s agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of “economic planning” and “social justice” that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration’s central activity — the political allocation of wealth and opportunity — is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.
I fear the the day will come when local government will cease to exist as we know it and merely will become handlers of federal money. More about that later.
