Just winging it on Wednesday

 Andrew Cuomo has told New York residents that he will be raising their taxes. With New York tax rates battling California for the highest in the nation, this should be interesting. When the revolution comes in New York, I am betting they hang Cuomo by his nipple rings.

We will soon be facing a similar situation here in North Carolina. Democratic governors don't understand that when you shut down a state, destroy the economy, and cause the layoffs of millions of working class people, tax revenues will drop. Hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians have gone without paychecks while the moron ordering the closings has not missed a single paycheck. There is something wrong with this system. How many state workers have had their hours reduced or their jobs ended by the moron's decrees? Is it anywhere near the percentage of private sector employees who have lost their jobs? I doubt it.

Not only do state income tax revenues drop, so do sales tax revenues. Surely, anyone with at least a room temperature could have seen this one coming. This is what happens when we elect lawyers to leadership posts. 

The states want the federal government to bail them out with another COVID relief(?) bill. Pardon me, but where the hell do you think that money is going to come from? Just in case you missed it, the federal government is also broke. They just have a bigger line of credit than the state governments do.

I love people in state and local governments who have no understanding of where "federal funds" come from. Roy Cooper, Head Moron in North Carolina, likes to talk about how Medicaid expansion is "free" because the federal government will pay for it. At a county commission meeting years ago, some woman droned on about a program that the county should join because it was free. When she said that it would be paid with "federal monies", I asked if she paid any federal taxes. It took 5 minutes for me to explain to an adult government official how taxes support the entire government structure. "Federal money" is not manna from heaven. As Zig Ziglar used to say, "There ain't no free lunch." Even better was Dolly Parton telling Burt Reynolds in Best Little Whorehouse about a risk he was taking. Burt was going to his in-town girlfriend's house for Thanksgiving Dinner. Dolly told him, "You better be careful. One day, there's going to be a hook in that turkey that's going to drag your ass to a wedding chapel." There's a hook in all "federal monies".  

Last shot. Why are government employees all "essential", but only a few of the rest of us are "essential". Do state employees pay enough taxes to pay themselves if the rest of us aren't working?

January 20, 2021 is National Mask Burning Day. Join us at noon. I told a couple of women about this and they wanted to know if they could burn bras also. I told them that I am okay with that.