TO THE EDITOR:
Throughout the 20th century North Carolina fostered an activist state government that facilitated development through investments in infrastructure and education.
North Carolina became the first state to adopt personal income taxes in 1921 and in 1925 enacted one of the nation’s first gas taxes.
North Carolina’s leaders had the foresight to invest in development, and we have reaped the benefits ever since.
My choice for governor is clear: Walter Dalton is the successor to this state’s progressive heritage, following in the footsteps of C.B. Aycock, Terry Sanford, Jim Hunt and other strong leaders from our state’s past.
Pat McCrory favors unprecedented cuts to the corporate and personal income taxes that make up two-thirds of our state’s revenue, and has said himself that he’d like to make our state government and revenue sources more like those of South Carolina.
He must not be from North Carolina to say a thing like that — we as North Carolinians are proud to invest our precious incomes in our state and have no interest in resembling our neighbor to the south.
McCrory would have our state increasingly resemble Charlotte, or worse yet South Carolina, and it is for this reason that I encourage voters to support the native son from Rutherfordton in this election.
I would also point out that Dalton, like the vast majority of North Carolina’s governors, attended the University of North Carolina, something his opponent cannot claim. Vote for tradition, vote for Walter Dalton.
