Hypocritical Senate Democrats Balk at Opportunity to Increase Taxes to “Save Education”

On the Senate floor today, during the debate on the bipartisan state budget bill, Democrats were given the opportunity to reinsert an $800 million tax increase into the budget.

After all of the hyperbolic talk about “the end of public education” and “the biggest layoffs in government history,” laughable claims made by Governor Perdue and Democratic legislators, 16 of 19 Senate Democrats voted against spending more money on education by extending the temporary sales tax.

Apparently, North Carolina’s K-12 system does receive the proper amount of funding in the bipartisan budget. If the budget is truly an “assault on education,” as Senate Democrats pontificated, they would have voted to increase taxes in order to appropriate more to K-12 education.

Democrats cried “Wolf” about commonsense and necessary budget cuts proposed by Republicans.

They recoiled from the opportunity to right-size government.

They claimed North Carolina had a “revenue problem.”

Senate Republicans called their bluff.

Forty-seven of fifty Senators, including 85 percent of the Democratic Caucus, demonstrated their belief that North Carolina’s education system can survive – and thrive – without raising taxes.

Governor Perdue now stands alone for higher taxes.

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