Scott Mooneyham yesterday wrote:
[C]onservative wags everywhere are yapping about a budget deficit, a budget shortfall.
You’d hardly know there is none.
There is, however, a budget surplus, just as there was a budget surplus during the previous fiscal year.
Despite the hype from the right, state government in North Carolina is currently well in the black.
I’d like to welcome Chris Fitzsimon and Elaine Mejia to the right. I look forward to their calls for spending restraint and tax relief to help low-income North Carolinians.
