Just somebody let me know if you disagree so I’ll know how ignorant you people are. We can all agree that taxes pay for essential necessities for all of us. Every single citizen. Then we can also agree that there’s one side that wants to keep cutting tax revenue down to the bare minimum if not less than what they need to get the job done. And you have another group that’s trying to keep the boat afloat by doing the very least of tax raising that they can. I think we all know who the problem is. The problem is the people who are telling you that taxes are bad, and they want to continue to lower them even though it affects every single one of us in a negative way. Taxes are not bad unless you believe the stupid rhetoric by these dumb lying politicians.

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Editor’s Note: The Republicans who control state government have reduced taxes, and revenue has increased significantly. The state no longer owes $2.75 billion to the federal government, has over $1 billion in reserves and has consistently raised teacher salaries. It appears lowering taxes might be a good idea.

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Section 8 vouchers for government-subsidized housing should be used in every neighborhood in every city. Even in your wealthy gated communities, Section 8 vouchers should be used. People that look down on poor people might realize there are poor people that are actually make excellent neighbors. I think it’s wrong to discriminate against people because of income. Section 8 vouchers should be used in every section of Greensboro, not just the poor section. Everyone deserves the right to a good school. Everyone deserves a right to a nice, safe neighborhood. People should not be frowned upon, or turned against, or discriminated against, or penalized because they don’t have money.

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Yes, I’d like to say I was looking at the magazine last week, and I saw some blacks at Donald Trump’s rally. And I just say that any black person that supports or believes in Donald Trump must be on crack. I don’t know what they see in that man. Because, apparently, Donald Trump ain’t going to save black people from going to hell. Only black folks can save themselves. If they believe in him, they’re really going to hell. And those sisters that believe in Donald Trump, they must be on crack, too, or something. I don’t know what they’re thinking. I mean, those old buzzards need to check themselves if they’re going to believe in Donald Trump that bad. I mean, why are you going to trust a man you don’t even really know, a man who really ain’t done anything for black people as far as I’m concerned. Donald ain’t done squat diddly for black folks in his entire life. I mean trust him, then you must be on crack.

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Yes, I’d like to comment about the mass shooting that went down in Orlando and the kid that got eaten by the alligator or whatever. Like I said, that stuff that happened down in Florida is unfortunate, but it don’t surprise me. It’s like everything is going on according to the Bible or Koran. Everything is happening because those two right there. And, plus, in a way it’s like the old saying, what goes around comes around. I guess what’s coming around is coming back to Florida, because Florida knowing its history and stuff has always been hell. So, really, I guess Florida must be in hell, because of its hellish history. So, in a way I don’t feel sorry what happened down there in Florida. It’s like the old saying, what goes around, comes around. So, now, I guess Florida got its own chastising over its past of what it’s done to black people and Indians. So, really Florida is catching hell because of its past.

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I’m a DSS employee, and I’m looking here at the county salaries. And I think it’s pathetic that all these big county employees are making all this money, and we are the ones doing all the work, working like dogs, bringing home some $30,000. Marty Lawing is making almost $200,000. And when you call and leave him a message, he does not call you back. I have left three messages. Ms. Heather Skeens is almost making $122,000, and there’s no even reason even talking to her. You can’t talk to HR. So, there’s nobody to talk to in case you have a problem.

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Let me, if I may, describe a scenario, and you tell me if you’ve ever seen such scenario take place. She’s driving. He’s in the passenger seat with the seat leaned all the way back, his hat on backwards, because she is the one with the job, the car and the insurance and the money. He has nothing. They go out to eat. She reaches in her pocketbook, gets out the debit card and pays. He does nothing. He doesn’t even leave a tip. And guess what he will have 25 years from now? Again, nothing. Then these same women are the same women who work every day, who drop kids off at daycare on the way to work, pick them up on the way home …

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Let me get this right. I just read what the new Guilford County school superintendent from New York is going to be making $250,000 a year for four years. I think that’s $1 million in salary. Am I correct? We all need to remember this the next time the principals and teachers start fussing and crying about no money in their schools because of budget shortfalls. We all need to remember this. Surely this superintendent is not going to model our schools after the failed education system in New York. Let’s hope not. City, county and all federal employees continually wanting more money, constantly. It never ends. While the private sector, who pays their salary, has had to work for less money, face massive layoffs. Does that make sense? Of course it doesn’t.

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I served my country while Bush was in office. Thank God I was discharged before Obama took office. Now my upmost sympathy goes out to any military personnel who may serve under Hillary Clinton as commander in chief. The military demands respect. Hillary deserves none. She deserves no respect in this matter. Southern Guilford County here. Thank you.

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This is too good to be kept. Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren are campaigning. And one of the ladies on Fox News said that is Thelma and Louise. They would drive the country off a cliff, sure enough. But what I never hear them say, and I’ve called in before about this, what are we going to do about $19 trillion? Nobody has addressed that. Hillary’s talking about spending more. She’s talking about letting children go to college for nothing. That is real good bookkeeping if she can let them go for nothing and they can lower the national debt.

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I’m calling in reference to a man that stands on a corner with a sign that says he is homeless and he has bone cancer. Neither of these statements are true. I know for a fact the man owns his house. He does not pay no rent. And he neither has any kind of cancer. So, the next time maybe if you see him instead of giving him $1, maybe we should give him a Bible tract that said thou shalt not steal.

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The Burlington Christian revival in the giant tent near Cox Toyota is still drawing Christians to worship five days a week. Attendance has been more than 3,000 per night and 15,000 for the week. For the last four weeks it is more than 60,000 people with over 500 lost souls being saved and brought to the Lord. There is still time to join the revival and get right with the Lord. If you read the local fish wrap, they have not reported one word about this fantastic news and Christian story. I wonder why.

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I was just watching a thing about Istanbul, Turkey. Bombing. I would love to be a fly on the wall with Hillary Clinton and Obama. I bet they’re grinning. They’re getting exactly what they want. That’s what the American people are going to get. Better face it. Better look what you’re doing. Don’t vote for Hillary Clinton or you’re going to get worse and worse and worse.

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As recently stated, when it comes to the Benghazi incident, Hillary would rather move on. I think when it comes to a lot of issues, Hillary would rather move on. It’s evidently the Democratic way. Put a Band-Aid on it. Keep looking forward, and don’t look back. Southern Guilford County here.

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Who didn’t see this one coming? The fix was in the whole time. And I told anybody who would listen after Mo Green left, the next superintendent would be a female minority, especially after the uproar the minorities in this city created after we hired a white police chief. But now we have a superintendent who’s leaving her current position up in Syracuse in a cloud of controversy where she will not punish the minority children who create problems in the schools up there, or she’s not tough enough on the minority children and kids up there who create problems in the schools.

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It’s June 29, and after what’s happening in Turkey, knowing that ISIS says they was the one wanting to get over here to come in with the Syrian refugees, does Hillary Clinton still want to bring 65,000 of them in here when the FBI said there was no way possible to check on who was coming? The only thing they can do is tell them their name, and that’s all they know about them. If she’s that

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I’d like to ask people in northeast Greensboro a simple question. Is it OK with you that I’m proud of my home, and I love my home, and I think my home is very nice, and I think my home is in a nice area, but it’s not in northwest Greensboro? Uh-oh. Culture shock. Look out. And I thought only homes that were nice in northwest Greensboro. So, you can have a home that’s nice, and you’re proud of and it not be in the northwest part of the city. There are nice homes in every part of Greensboro, not just the northwest. I know you don’t believe this, but it’s true. I am very proud of my home, and I appreciate my home, and I think it’s a beautiful home.

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I’m calling in support of the letter by Frank Swanson. I think he’s right. Until the school board learns to spend the money that we’re giving them at the classroom level, and not at an administrative level, I don’t think they should get another penny.

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I was just reading in the Rhino about the economic growth. There’s not going to be an economic growth in Greensboro because our mayor is giving all the money away, and is giving herself a 60 percent raise. This is a crooked City Council that we’ve got. And if Skip Alston wants some money, they give him all he wants to that museum, which that is totally wrong. I was in Wal-Mart the other day, and went down the bread aisle, and there was a pair of shoes where somebody was stealing Wal-Mart blind. Put a pair of shoes on, wore them out of the store, and put their old ones by the bread. They’re going to put Wal-Mart out of business. And anybody that opens up a business in Greensboro, they’re going to steal them blind, put them out of business, too. I would not open a business in Greensboro because the law can’t do anything about the people stealing because Nancy Vaughan and that foolish man we got for city police chief won’t do anything about it. They’re stealing and doing everything they can because nobody does a thing about it.

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Me again about the economic growth. I’d like some members of the City Council to go down Bessemer Avenue and look at the economic growth. There’s hundreds of cars sitting with no tags on them. You’re not getting any tax money out of them people. Bessemer used to be a nice neighborhood. Look at the businesses that’s been out of business because people breaking in and stealing everything they got. OK, City Council, get off your behinds. Go over there and look around and there’s your economic growth.

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Yeah, Steely Dan Fan Man. How can Obama be running the country and be out on the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton? I mean, he’s never really done anything to run the country as it is, and it seems like in his last few months he would at least make some kind of attempt to gain some kind of traction to get his head, at least a hair of his head above water. Anyway, isn’t that a conflict of interest to be running – to be campaigning for somebody that you are in charge of whether or not they’ll be indicted? That don’t sound right.

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A caller in last week’s Beep predicted the demise of the United Kingdom, or England as he incorrectly called it, now that we have left the European Union. Well, I’ll make a wager with you, Buddy. I’ll bet you $100 that in five years’ time, that is to say five years from our independence day, June 23, 2016, if you compare the economy of the United Kingdom compared to the economic growth, or lack thereof, within the EU, that the United Kingdom will leave the EU in its dust. Sixty-percent of our regulations in the UK come from Brussels from an unelected commission including the shape of the bananas that we are allowed to import into the UK, and the kind of cabbage that we must grow. Regulations about the cabbage constitute 16,000 words. Now that we’re free of those European bureaucrats, we will leave them in our dust. And you needn’t worry about the future of the UK. It’ll do just fine. Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.