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Low taxes, little government, ridicule – NC has seen it before
Christensen's been on a roll lately. I appreciate the little history lesson...
Low taxes, little government, ridicule – NC has seen it before
Published: August 10, 2013
By Rob Christensen
We have seen this before in North Carolina – the reign of the green-eyeshaded men who thought low taxes trumped all, and if there were any coins left in the till at the end of the day they would throw it into the education pot.
It was called the 1800s. And Walter Hines Page had a name for them. He called North Carolina’s leaders “the mummies” as in very old, well-wrapped, very dead Egyptians because of their complacent conservatism.
Page, who died in 1918, is Cary’s most famous son. His father founded Cary. Walter Page would become a newspaperman, co-founder of a famous New York publishing house, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, then the nation’s leading magazine; and finally U.S. ambassador to Great Britain during World War I. Page Auditorium at Duke University is named after him.
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The 20th century turned out to be a different story. North Carolina’s 20th-century journey was one of expanding growth and prosperity. It was done, in part, with the assistance of major expenditures on education, roads, universities, the arts, research parks and community colleges. In 1900, North Carolina spent 21 percent of the national average on education. By the end of the century it was spending 86 percent of the national average – a long multigenerational, boot-strap slog that has never been a straight-line advance.
By the end of the 20th century, North Carolina was one of the fastest-growing states in the country.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/10/3098057/christensen-low-taxes-little-government.html#storylink=cpy
Published: August 10, 2013
By Rob Christensen
We have seen this before in North Carolina – the reign of the green-eyeshaded men who thought low taxes trumped all, and if there were any coins left in the till at the end of the day they would throw it into the education pot.
It was called the 1800s. And Walter Hines Page had a name for them. He called North Carolina’s leaders “the mummies” as in very old, well-wrapped, very dead Egyptians because of their complacent conservatism.
Page, who died in 1918, is Cary’s most famous son. His father founded Cary. Walter Page would become a newspaperman, co-founder of a famous New York publishing house, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, then the nation’s leading magazine; and finally U.S. ambassador to Great Britain during World War I. Page Auditorium at Duke University is named after him.
....
The 20th century turned out to be a different story. North Carolina’s 20th-century journey was one of expanding growth and prosperity. It was done, in part, with the assistance of major expenditures on education, roads, universities, the arts, research parks and community colleges. In 1900, North Carolina spent 21 percent of the national average on education. By the end of the century it was spending 86 percent of the national average – a long multigenerational, boot-strap slog that has never been a straight-line advance.
By the end of the 20th century, North Carolina was one of the fastest-growing states in the country.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/10/3098057/christensen-low-taxes-little-government.html#storylink=cpy
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