Statement on budget deal from Alexandra Sirota, Executive Director of the NC Budget & Tax Center
North Carolinians need leaders who understand the real pressures families and communities are facing and who are willing to adapt when the facts demand it. Instead, this budget deal, hatched behind closed doors, reflects an increasingly rigid ideology and a pattern of intentional neglect — underfunding public needs, giving tax breaks to the wealthy while advancing constitutional changes that would lock future generations into fewer choices and fewer tools to solve problems and strengthen our state.
We have choices right now.
North Carolina can pursue a well-being budget that invests in the things people and our economy need to thrive — strong schools, affordable health care, child care, housing, and resilient communities — instead of hamstringing our state into policies that limit our future.
More information
For more information, please contact Alexandra Sirota, Executive Director with the NC Budget & Tax Center, at [email protected]; or Mel Umbarger, Director of Communications with the NC Budget & Tax Center, at [email protected].
ABOUT NC BUDGET & TAX CENTER: The NC Budget & Tax Center is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization that documents fiscal and economic conditions in communities to support the work of people, organizations, and government to advance solutions to poverty and pursue racial equity.
