Yes! For the 7th straight year Charlotte is the top-taxed city in North Carolina! In your face Raleigh! Take that Greensboro! Who is progressive now, Durham? Ha! Wilmington has a beach, but we spend $40 million on a log flume ride! Top that amateurs!

Our taxes and fees totaled $2,409 per resident for the 2006 budget year. That’s more than $300 per person higher than our competitors. Better still, our local tax bill increased from $2,185 per person in 2005. And what’s that mean, ladies and gents? That means our tax haul is growing by about 10 percent a year — roughly the same as the growth in government! Do we have it all figured out or what?

At this rate, in 10 years, government will double in size as will the local tax burden. Perfect. Big government, high taxes. Just what the Uptown crowd has always wanted.

Who is going to stop them? Now sing!