General public education remains our Achilles heel across the South. Cunningham told The Charlotte Observer that the quality of public education was one of the top problems North Carolina faced when trying to recruit new businesses from out of state. Davidson College political science professor Patrick Sellers in The Charlotte Observer . Those who decry the advent of TV-based political campaigns do so because they believe in three myths, he said. Other types of political communication are more useful than campaign ads.
Sellers argues that TV ads allow candidates to reach more people than do traditional campaign stops.
The state also could save money and pump tax refunds back into the economy more quickly by boosting its turnaround for tax payments made online and increasing the amount of returns filed online, the audit stated. Furthermore, the speed and efficiency would mean that the money would be held in state coffers for a shorter period and therefore would be put to productive use by taxpayers more immediately, Campbell reported. Getting that money back into the hands of taxpayers more quickly would be good for the economy, he said. Direct deposit of tax refunds could save the state money as well. The audit also found that the department's software being incompatible with withholdings.