N.C. Rep. Bill Faison has suggested another tax increase to potentially bring jobs to the state. When has a tax increase ever created jobs? At every turn our elected officials want to raise taxes — i.e. the gas, property, sales and income taxes, just to name a few.

The only thing not going up is our incomes. Our family has had to cut every conceivable luxury including cable television, restaurants and land-line telephone service just to be able to make ends meet. There simply isn’t anything else to cut. How about the politicians take a hint from the American people and learn to cut out a few luxuries themselves for once?

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