Reverend William Barber has taken to the road
decrying the moral outrages by North Carolinians and their elected
representatives. He and his rubber
nipple salesmen want to expand the welfare state.
Civitas reported the cost of Rev. William Barber and
his teat squawking acolytes’ agenda.
Estimates
now reach an eye-popping $10 billion to pay for the “people’s agenda.” That
would mark a whopping 50 percent increase in the state budget. To fund the
“Moral Monday” demands would cost every man, woman in child in North Carolina
roughly an additional $1,000. That
amounts to adding another $4,000 in taxes to the tax bill of each family of
four.
As published yesterday, Civitas tallied a partial list of
“Moral Monday” demands and arrived at an immediate budget impact of roughly $3 billion. The list was limited largely due to
constraints in obtaining data.
Yesterday evening, however, Senate President Pro Tem Phil
Berger’s office released the draft of a budget amendment that
included cost estimates for many of the protesters’ demands. The estimates were
put together by legislative staff and as such offers insights previously
unavailable to Civitas. Berger’s office months ago sent a letter to state NAACP head
William Barber asking for specific policy recommendations. After Barber responded, Berger asked General
Assembly staff members to draft an amendment that would include many of the
points addressed in Barber’s letter.
The amendment calculates about $7 billion in annual
additional costs to taxpayers. The largest item is $6.8 billion to provide
funding for health insurance for all North Carolinians, regardless of
immigration status. Included in the 14-point “people’s agenda” laid out by the
state NAACP are the demands for “health care for all,” and “NC must provide
immigrants with health care.”
Utopia
is just a “Moral Monday” away.
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