Re: What is up with North Carolina's flat state tax?
Quite a stretch. I'm certain you can provide the proof to back this up, right?
Here is a list of NC legislators with ALEC ties:
North Carolina Legislators with ALEC Ties
House of Representatives
Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-40)[1], attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Hugh Allen Blackwell (R-86), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member [3]
Rep. Jamie Boles (R-52), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. William Brawley (R-103), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Bill Brisson (D-22), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Rayne Brown (R-81), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Justin P. Burr (R-67), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member,[4] attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. George Cleveland (R-14)[5][6]
Rep. John Faircloth (R-61), ALEC member according to July 2013 email to constituent[7]
Rep. Mike Hager (R-112), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Kelly Hastings (R-110), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Bryan R. Holloway (R-91), ALEC Education Task Force Alternate[8]
Rep. D. Craig Horn (R-68)[1], attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Julia Howard (R-79), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member[9] , attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Linda P. Johnson (R-83), ALEC Education Task Force Member[10] , attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. David Lewis (R-53), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Susan Martin (R-8)[1]
Rep. Chuck McGrady (R-117), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Tim Moffitt (R-116)[1], ALEC International Relations Task Force Member[11] and Communications and Technology Task Force Alternate[12], attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Tim K. Moore (R-111), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member,[4] attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Tom Murry (R-41), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member[13] , attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Jason Saine (R-97)[1]
Rep. Ruth Samuelson (R-104), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member[14] , attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Paul B. Stam, Jr. (R-37), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force[15] Member, attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Sarah Stevens (R-90)[1], attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Mike Stone (R-51), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Speaker Thom Tillis (R-98), ALEC International Relations Task Force Member[16] , 2011 ALEC State Legislator of the Year[17], attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. John Torbett (R-108), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Harry Warren (R-77), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Senate
Sen. Tom Apodaca (R-48), ALEC Education Task Force Member[18]
Rep. Bill Cook (R-1), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Former Representatives
Rep. Jeff Barnhart (R-82), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member[19] , attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Former Speaker James B. Black [20]
Former Rep. Curtis Blackwood (R-68), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member,[21] ALEC Education Task Force member 2003-2004[22]
Rep. Harold Brubaker (R-78), member of ALEC Board of Directors[23], Public Sector Chair of the International Relations Task Force[24] and attended the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting[2] Civil Justice Task Force Member [25]
Rep. William Current (R-109), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member[26]
Former Rep. Jerry C. Dockham (R-80), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member[27]
Rep. Dale Robbins Folwell (R-74), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member[28], attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Ric Killian (R-105), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member[29]
Rep. Stephen A. LaRoque (R-10), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member, attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Daniel F. McComas (R-19), ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force Member[30] (current chairman of the North Carolina State Ports Authority Board of Directors)
Rep. Darrell McCormick (R-92), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Rep. Richard Morgan, currently running for NC Commissioner of Insurance. [31]
Rep. Bill Owens (D-1), attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2] (declined to seek election in 2012)
Rep. Fred Steen (R-76), ALEC State Chairman[32] and Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member[33], attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[2]
Former Senators
Sen. David Rouzer (R-12), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member[34]
Sen. Donald Ray Vaughan (D-27), ALEC Education Task Force Member[35]
Rep. Connie Wilson. [31]
North Carolina ALEC Politicians - SourceWatch
Now let's take a look at what has been privatized and what is being privatized:
Vouchers seen as winning ticket for NC private schools :: WRAL.com
Privatization of NC Commerce gets under way - Charlotte Business Journal
North Carolina Mental Health System | In the Public Interest
North Carolina's HHS secretary looking for payers to help her privatize Medicaid - MedCity News
Privatizing NC
Starving the Beast: Art Pope, Pat McCrory, and the N.C. budget - Poking the Hornet's Nest - January 2013 - Charlotte, NC