NC Budget & Tax Center executive director Alexandra Sirota on the legislature’s budget battles

Alexandra Sirota, Director, NC Budget and Tax Center Over the last 12-plus years of Republican rule at the General Assembly, North Carolina’s state fiscal system has been almost completely overhauled. Thanks to a combination of big, repeated, and regressive tax and spending cuts, public investments in core public services and structures like education have fallen dramatically while the taxes paid by wealthy individuals and corporations have plummeted. Now, however, state legislative leaders want to take things even further. As NC Newsline’s Rob Schofield learned in a recent conversation with North Carolina Budget and Tax Center executive director Alexandra Sirota, Senate and House Republicans are currently debating budget proposals that would take public investments to new depths while inflicting massive new challenges on state and local agencies that are already struggling mightily to retain employees and serve the public. Stream and subscribe | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts The post NC Budget & Tax Center executive director Alexandra Sirota on the legislature’s budget battles appeared first on NC Newsline.