By Viki Atkinson Feature All Hail the Hunter Rick Smith was a sportswriter in an earlier life. Speaking of Tommy, one day while listening to the knucklehead AM station, I heard a very nice commercial the lad made for Paul Coble. Dubya's been yapping about. Here goes my read on the deal. Apparently folks didn't understand what I said several columns ago about the main, sagging, termite-riven plank in his platform.
Tax cuts save the average soul nothing.
That's why the tax cut got shellacked in Congress. The wealthy, in this case property owners with lots of real estate, benefit from tax cuts. If you own one lil', bitty ol' house, or especially if you rent, you are getting soaked with user fees that force you to shoulder Raleigh's increasing revenue needs. Coble himself has said that despite the tax cut, the city has been able find to more revenue. Hey, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat - nothing up my sleeve.