Edited sentence: A new gasoline-tax hike is scheduled for early 2006, and a "temporary" emergency hike in sales tax has been indefinitely extended as of 2005.As of late 2005, state taxes continue sharply rising, with Easley publicly saying that they cannot be capped.He also successfully led an effort to get the state to spend a fortune in "incentives" money to get Dell Computer to build a new factory in the Winston-Salem area, which has been very controversial in view of the extreme ratio of "incentives" money spent per job promised to be created