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Alexandra Sirota on the legislature’s power grab bill and the disinvestment in core public services

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Alexandra Sirota (Photo: NC Budget & Tax Center)

A new law enacted by North Carolina Republican legislators that purports to be about Hurricane Helene relief is, for the most part, anything but. Rather than providing desperately needed relief and recovery dollars to devastated families and businesses, Senate Bill 382 is a 131-page power grab bill that seizes duties from newly elected Democrats and shifts them to Republicans.

What’s more, as NC Newsline learned in a recent conversation with Alexandra Sirota – the executive director of the nonpartisan North Carolina Budget and Tax Center — the new law is sadly emblematic of a decade-long pattern in which legislators have repeatedly focused on accumulating power and helping the well-off while neglecting opportunities to make life better for average North Carolinians.

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Alexandra Sirota (Photo: NC Budget & Tax Center)

A new law enacted by North Carolina Republican legislators that purports to be about Hurricane Helene relief is, for the most part, anything but. Rather than providing desperately needed relief and recovery dollars to devastated families and businesses, Senate Bill 382 is a 131-page power grab bill that seizes duties from newly elected Democrats and shifts them to Republicans.

What’s more, as NC Newsline learned in a recent conversation with Alexandra Sirota – the executive director of the nonpartisan North Carolina Budget and Tax Center — the new law is sadly emblematic of a decade-long pattern in which legislators have repeatedly focused on accumulating power and helping the well-off while neglecting opportunities to make life better for average North Carolinians.

Click here to access the full podcast.

  continue reading

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