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California Earthquake Authority applauds introduction of federal tax-parity legislation for disaster-mitigation incentives
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Legislation sponsored by California congressional leaders would end federal taxation for CEA-funded seismic-retrofit grants, other programs
“We commend the bill sponsors for their hard work on this legislation and for recognizing that homeowners should not be forced to pay a tax penalty for making their homes safer and more resilient to earthquakes, wildfires and windstorms,” said CEA CEO Glenn Pomeroy. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (PRWEB) July 22, 2021 The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) applauds the introduction today of legislation led by members of California’s congressional delegation, which would exclude from federal taxation disaster-mitigation grants from an entity established by a state, such as the $3,000 grants CEA provides California homeowners through the Earthqu
Will Governor McCrory become Senator McCrory?
Published April 29, 2021
Maybe you can’t stand Pat, but former Governor McCrory could be future Senator McCrory.
When McCrory announced he’ll run for the Senate next year, many of my fellow Democrats laughed – and pounced. So did Republicans.
Democrats dismissed him as the Governor who signed into law House Bill 2, the controversial transgender “bathroom bill,” and then became the first North Carolina governor to lose reelection.
Another Republican running for the Senate seat, former Congressman Mark Walker, attacked him saying: “With taking back the Senate majority hinging on our success in North Carolina, why would we gamble on Pat McCrory a career politician who has lost more statewide races than he’s won?”
Rep. Jason Saine
There is, of course, nothing particularly new about politicians talking out of both sides of their mouths. One of the favored hypocrisies of conservative Republican elected officials, for instance, involves railing on a daily basis about the evils of big gummint spending and then making a beeline to the latest ribbon-cutting announcement of a new military installation, school, agricultural center or some other public work in their district.
In these instances, the basic rule is a simple one: when public tax dollars come to your district, they prime the economic pump and help create jobs. When they go to another district, it’s a matter of wasteful bureaucratic spending. If North Carolinians had $1,000 for every time Senators Burr and Tillis went down this road, we might have enough to cover the cost of the new public incentive plan the state will provide to Apple Computer to locate its big new campus in Wake County.
Letters to the Editor for Thursday, March 24
Hendersonville Times-News
Stolen labor from millions
To the Editor: In a column (March 6,) the writer suggests that the labor of enslaved Africans was not valuable enough to be worthy of reparations. That is wrong.
From the beginning of English colonization, the labor of enslaved Africans was so valuable that every loophole that might have gained anyone freedom was examined and closed.
In 1662, the Virginia House of Burgesses made enslavement hereditary with a law that a child of an enslaved woman became a slave even if the father was an Englishman. In 1667, Virginia lawmakers closed the Christian baptism loophole by passing a law that being a baptized Christian could not free a black person from bondage. Fugitive slave laws closed off every avenue of escape.