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Due to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ blatant disregard for state law, I have filed the CHCCS Act. Among many other provisions, this bill will withhold the superintendent’s salary if a district is found to be in violation of the Parents’ Bill of Rights. Full list below. #ncpol

Bureaucrats in Raleigh still licking the ice-cream cone of endless funding while forms breed like rabbits. Time for AI + a DOGE-style private-sector wrecking crew to slash the waste. Hilarious (and deadly serious) article: AI to the Rescue: Bureaucrats, Meet Your New Boss (It’s Not Even Unionized) Listen up, North Carolina—and every other state where the government still runs on punch cards, rotary phones, and the faint hope that maybe this fiscal year the forms will finally stop breeding like rabbits. I’ve just read Andrew Dunn’s piece on how our public sector is stuck in the technological Dark Ages, shuffling paper like medieval monks while the rest of the planet zooms ahead on AI. It’s hilarious in a “please don’t audit my taxes” kind of way. But here’s the punchline nobody in Raleigh wants to hear: the bureaucrats aren’t going to fix this themselves. Ever. They’re too busy licking the ice-cream cone of endless funding, asking for one more scoop of staff, one more dollop of authority, and promising—cross their cold, clammy hearts—that this time they’ll do things slightly less expensively and marginally less incompetently. You know the type. The average government lifer looks at a budget shortfall the way a toddler eyes a birthday cake: “More! More! And don’t you dare suggest we share with the taxpayers.” Ask them how to streamline anything and you’ll get a 47-page report titled “Preliminary Findings on the Feasibility of Considering Efficiency Initiatives (Phase One).” Translation: “We need three new divisions, six consultants, and a bigger office fridge.” That’s why the solution isn’t another blue-ribbon panel of the same people who tied the ribbons in the first place. No earnest task forces. No earnest hearings where earnest legislators nod earnestly while the bureaucrats earnestly explain why AI is “concerning” and requires “further study” and “equity impact assessments” and probably a new holiday called National Paperwork Appreciation Day. What we need is DOGE on steroids—a lean, mean, private-sector wrecking crew with one mission: rip through every state agency like a chainsaw through red tape. Call it the North Carolina Efficiency SWAT Team, or the Taxpayer Rescue Rangers, or whatever doesn’t sound like it came from a focus group of accountants. Import the sharpest operators from Silicon Valley, the guys who actually ship products instead of studying the shipping forms. Give them total access: every dusty database, every procurement contract, every midnight overtime form that somehow costs more than a small car. Their job? Total review. Map every government function, then slam AI into it like a rocket booster on a tricycle. Fraud detection? AI spots the phony unemployment claims before the ink dries. Benefits processing? Chatbots that actually answer the phone instead of playing “hold music from 1997.” DMV renewals? Done in 30 seconds while you’re still looking for a parking spot. The same tech that lets Amazon deliver your socks in two days can finally let the state mail your tax refund without a six-month detour through bureaucratic purgatory. And here’s the beautiful part—the part that makes the ice-cream lickers break out in a cold sweat: pay these private experts a straight percentage of the money they save. Five percent, ten percent, whatever the legislature haggles down to. It’s the ultimate capitalist hack. They eat only what they kill. No savings, no check. Suddenly you’ve got entrepreneurs lined up around the block, salivating at the chance to turn $100 million in waste into $90 million in actual services and a nice payday for themselves. It’s not charity; it’s a bounty on inefficiency. The Founding Fathers would approve. Thomas Jefferson would probably tweet about it. Bureaucrats will howl, of course. They always do. “You can’t replace us with machines!” they’ll cry, right before demanding a 20 percent raise and a new wellness coordinator to help them cope with the trauma of change. But here’s the dirty secret they don’t want you to know: AI doesn’t want your pension. It doesn’t call in sick on Fridays. It doesn’t write 500-page environmental impact statements on why the copier needs a new toner cartridge. It just works—quietly, cheaply, and without pretending it’s performing a public service by existing. We’ve already seen the proof in pockets around the country. The feds are using AI to claw back billions in fraud. North Carolina’s own Treasurer’s office ran a pilot and got 10 percent productivity gains with pocket change. Imagine that scaled up, not by the people who benefit from the status quo, but by outsiders who get rich only when you get relief. Politicians, here’s your cue. Stop pretending the bureaucracy will reform itself. It’s like expecting your house cat to start paying rent. Pass the bill. Create the DOGE squad. Tie the bonuses to real, audited savings. Then sit back and watch the ice-cream cone melt while the rest of us finally get government that costs less, works faster, and stops treating our wallets like an all-you-can-eat buffet. The technology is here. The talent is willing. The only thing missing is the political courage to tell the bureaucrats, politely but firmly, to lick their own cones somewhere else. Time’s wasting. The forms are multiplying. Let’s unleash the AI already—before the next budget cycle turns into another $10 billion game of bureaucratic musical chairs. @NCGOP @JohnLockeNC @ncspeakerhall #NCGA #GovernmentEfficiency #DOGE #TaxpayerFirst

NC Gov. Josh Stein was back at it again today, rallying against school choice in North Carolina. It remains a losing issue for Democrats, as a clear majority of the public supports giving families the opportunity to choose the best school for their child. #ncpol #ncga

Unsolicited ballots = opportunity for fraud. NC’s system with witnesses and requests is far superior. Read this takedown: x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @SenatorBerger @NCCivitas @NCHouseGOP #SecureOurVote #ElectionSecurity #NCGOP #Liberty

$12 billion spent since ’94 and the kids still can’t read. Lowering the bar isn’t “progress.” Giving parents real choice is. x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @timmoore @NCCivitas @NCSenateGOP #SchoolChoice #EducationReform #NCGA #TaxpayerDollars

The Missing Men of UNC are voting with their feet — straight to trades and real jobs. This must-read essay nails why the current model is finished and how AI will finally liberate education. NC GOP leaders, this is your moment. x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @NCSenateGOP @SenatorBerger @UNC_System #CollegeBubble #TradesOverDegrees #NCEducation #DefundWokeEd

Affirmative action for crime rates: Latinos promoted to “White privilege” the moment they get cuffed. The satire that’s got everyone talking: x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @TeamTrump @realDailyWire @GovRonDeSantis #MAGA #RonDeSantis #Satire #StopTheSteal

@JohnLockeNC Total School Choice will solve that issue! No more taxes. Government receives and wastes too much as it is!

At a time when property tax bills are rising across NC, policymakers have proposed a constitutional amendment to limit how quickly those taxes can grow. However, critics warn that such limits could reduce allocations to public schools. #ncga #ncpol johnlocke.org/property-tax-l…

Must-read essay exposing how NC counties raked in billions MORE in property taxes than inflation + population growth allows! Time for REAL levy limits to protect families. Thank you @ncspeakerhall @JohnLockeNC @NCGOP for leading the charge! x.com/EatTheRichLib/… #LevyLimits #TaxpayerRelief #NCGOP #FiscalResponsibility

Stein’s budget pitch is pure 2009 nostalgia — spend first, tax later, blame the grown-ups. Roast him here: “Governor Josh Stein: The Tax-and-Spend DeLorean Back to Tax Hell” x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @DestinHall @SenatorBerger @NCChamber #StopTheDeLorean #KeepNCGrowing #NCBusinessStrong #NCBudget x.com/EatTheRichLib/…

Federal audit: 27 of 50 nondomiciled CDLs straight-up illegal. NCDMV treated safety like a church bake sale. Savage full essay every NC taxpayer needs: x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @NCHouseGOP @LPNC @JohnLockeNC #CDLScandal #NCRepublicans #PublicSafety #LimitedGovernment

Media meltdown because Hegseth scratched colonels who cared more about demographic boxes than winning wars. This essay is brutal, hilarious, and dead right: x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @VDHanson @EndWokeness @DC_Draino #HegsethHousecleaning #NoDEIinUniform #RealWarriorsRise #MAGA

Governor Josh Stein just dropped his latest fiscal bomb: Automatic tax cuts — already baked into law — are now “exceedingly painful cuts.” Translation: How dare you keep more of your own money when there are liberal wish-list items to fund? This is peak tax-and-spend theater from the doomsayers in Raleigh. Watch the full no-holds-barred video breakdown now. Complete article: Governor Stein’s War on Your Wallet — and the Voters Who Keep Saying No! The North Carolina General Assembly limps back into Raleigh on April 21 for its short session, after the primary bloodbath that turned Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger into a lame duck by a razor-thin 23 votes. The Republican-controlled North Carolina House and Senate are still at an impasse over the state’s budget. Enter Democrat Governor Josh Stein and the tax-and-spend crowd who continue to howl that automatic income-tax reductions—already baked into law—are about to inflict “exceedingly painful cuts” on the state. Translation: How dare the taxpayers get to keep more of their own money when there are liberal wish-list items to fund? Stein dropped this fiscal bomb on the Council of State just last week. Revenues are up, he admits. The state is doing “pretty well.” But because growth triggered the next round of rate reductions, he warns we’ll be $2.8 billion short in two years and $5 billion in three. The horror! Never mind that these cuts were passed by the very legislature Stein now lectures. Never mind that North Carolina’s economy has been humming along precisely because we stopped pretending every extra tax dollar is a sacred gift to the public sector. Stein’s solution? Pause the tax relief, pass his $1.4 billion “critical needs” mini-budget stuffed with 13 percent raises for teachers, 10 percent for law enforcement officers, Medicaid top-offs, and all the usual bureaucratic goodies. In other words: Your money isn’t yours until the state has spent it on whatever progressive priority is fashionable this month. This is the same old song from the tax-and-spend crowd. They treat every revenue forecast like a blank check. Liberals demand yet more money for education, year after year, despite decades of pouring billions into the system with persistently dismal results. School choice? Competition? Heaven forbid—those might actually force improvement. Medicaid about to run dry? Spend more. And when the automatic tax triggers—designed to prevent exactly this kind of binge—finally kick in, they act shocked that the state might have to live within its means. It’s fiscal theater at its finest: Pretend the sky is falling so you can justify grabbing every dollar before the little guy in Asheville or Wilmington gets his hands on it. Meanwhile, the lame-duck Republicans are finally positioned to do what voters actually sent them to Raleigh to do. The bills are queued up like planes on a runway: permitless concealed carry so law-abiding citizens don’t have to beg permission to protect themselves; bans on DEI indoctrination in public schools and universities so kids learn math instead of grievance studies; and stronger cooperation with ICE to stop the revolving door at the border. These aren’t fringe “culture war” distractions. They’re the agenda North Carolinians have been demanding for years—and the one that keeps delivering Republican majorities even when the national headwinds blow hard. Voters aren’t stupid. They re-elected GOP supermajorities knowing full well what comes with them: lower taxes that leave more money in family budgets, Second Amendment rights that treat adults like adults, an end to the ideological capture of classrooms, and sheriffs who actually work with federal agents instead of playing sanctuary games. Poll after poll and election after election show it. Rural counties especially are fed up with open borders, skyrocketing costs, and schools that prioritize diversity bureaucrats over reading scores. When Democrats cry “extremism,” what they really mean is “the things normal people want that we hate.” Stein and his allies will spend the short session painting these priorities as reckless distractions from the “real work” of funding government. They’ll warn that without their spending spree, the sky will fall on teachers, troopers, and the vulnerable. What they won’t admit is that the real distraction is their refusal to accept that taxpayers have priorities too—and those priorities start with keeping more of what they earn. The automatic tax cuts aren’t a bug in the system; they’re a feature designed to force discipline on a political class that views your paycheck as its ATM. North Carolina has proven that lower taxes and restrained spending don’t lead to collapse. They lead to growth, jobs, and families who can actually afford a house or a tank of gas without checking the latest revenue forecast. The lame ducks may not last forever, but the voters who put them there are watching. Come April 21, the legislature has a chance to ignore the doomsayers in the governor’s mansion, pass the budget, deliver the reforms people actually voted for, and finally let North Carolinians decide how to spend their own damn money. Because in the end, that’s what this fight is about: whether Raleigh believes your earnings belong to you—or to the next round of state-employee raises and pet liberal projects. The voters have been pretty clear on the answer. It’s time the politicians listened. #NCGOP #TaxCuts #NCLegislature #FiscalResponsibility

From clink to glam on the public dime? Not in North Carolina anymore. The ACLU is furious — and this essay explains why you should be too: x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @NCSenateGOP @JohnLockeNC @NCCivitas #PrisonMakeovers #StopACLU #ProtectTaxpayers #NCPolitics

Stein calls automatic tax cuts “exceedingly painful.” Translation: How dare taxpayers keep their own money? NC Republicans — ignore the fiscal theater and deliver relief! Full essay: x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @NCGOP @JohnLockeNC @NCHouseGOP #TaxCuts #FiscalResponsibility #NCLegislature #LimitedGovernment

North Carolina’s ivory towers are running on fumes. “The Ivory Tower’s Last Binge” shows how woke campuses lost the men, exploded costs, and are about to get AI’d in the head. Time for real reform. Read it now: x.com/EatTheRichLib/… @NCGOP @UNC_System @NCHouseGOP #HigherEdReform #UNCSystem #AIRevolution #WokeUniversities