No one forced state lawmakers to raise taxes by $1 billion a year during the last legislative session, but Joe Coletti says a flawed budget process helped make that tax hike much more likely. Joe has recommended a series of seven reforms. He explains them in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Michael Sanera will join us to discuss Charlotte?s proposal to force landlords to take over some police duties, and N.C. State political scientist Andy Taylor will discuss tobacco?s waning influence over North Carolina politics.

Plus we?ll hear about one past and one present threat to the free world. Yuri Maltsev, a former economic adviser to Mikhaul Gorbachev, will discuss the history of Soviet Communist evil, while Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch will outline his concerns about radical Islam.