Annoyance and resistance to the policies of King George III and the British Parliament did not just materialize after the April 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. In…
Before the Edenton Tea Party’s 1774 protest against the tax on tea, before the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence on May 20, 1775 (it’s on the North Carolina flag!), and before…
Joshua Lawson writes at the Federalist about a particular poor historical analogy used to justify the recent riots. One of the most galling and misleading arguments tossed around following the…
The Henderson County Tourism Development Authority (TDA) collects taxes from people staying in hotels. It’s called taxation without representation. What does it do with the money? Well, it doesn’t quite…
I surely hate ETJ’s as un-American to the core because they impose rules upon people who cannot vote the rule-makers out of office. Asheville lost its ETJ, as I recall,…
I oppose hotel taxes as taxation without representation. I therefore do not agree with local activist Heather Rayburn that the moneys collected ought to be used to expand municipal general…
The local daily explored House Bill 903. Offering cities another quarter-cent sales tax option to be used for whatever on earth they please; it would in part fulfill the General…
The Sylva town fathers thought it would be really neat to extend their powers into lands where people cannot vote for them. The practice is known as creating an ETJ,…
The Watauga Democrat weighed pros and cons of eliminating Boone’s ETJ, taking a he-said/she-said perspective. S865 would eliminate the town’s ability to plan on people who cannot vote for members…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on expert analysts’ assessment of the state of North Carolina’s Republican U.S. Senate primary. Sarah Curry’s Daily Journal explains why an occupancy tax…
View in your browser. Most of us enjoy going on a vacation or two during the year, and that usually involves spending the night in a hotel or rental accommodation. …
At the last meeting of the Buncombe County Commissioners, Mike Fryar made more excellent points than I have the inclination to repeat. One that made headlines was his request that…