Our progressive friends at Raleigh’s Common Sense Foundation have weighed in on the state budget and whether or not the General Assembly should follow through with the long overdue expiration of two “temporary” tax increases (sales and income). In last Thursday’s “Consider This” column, the group argues the standard liberal line. First, that dropping the 8.25 percent top marginal rate on the state’s highest income earners is simply “tax breaks for the rich.” And second, that North Carolina “desperately needs an increased commitment to funding vital social services…”

Actually, no and no.