A report issued this month by the nonpartisan Citizens for Tax Justice awarded North Carolina Democrats in Congress high marks for defending tax fairness and fiscal responsibility. The yearly report card grades members of Congress on their votes on several bills based on whether they voted to make our tax system fairer for hard-working North Carolinians. Unlike North Carolina Democrats, all North Carolinians in the Congress received a pathetic 0% score for an overall "F" and were designated an "Enemy of the Taxpayers."

The report noted that many of the members who claimed to be taxpayers' heroes were often the ones leaving North Carolinians to foot the bill for their fiscally irresponsible policies. Reps. Taylor, Hayes, Foxx, McHenry, Coble, Jones, and Myrick and Sens. Dole and Burr voted time and again to increase budget deficits, for tax breaks for the few, and to set our nation on a course towards fiscal ruin.

"Republicans are all talk on taxes, but this just proves how out of touch they are with the hard-working people of North Carolina. Instead of working to protect our future and enacting sound fiscal policy, North Carolina Republicans were content to stick North Carolinians with the bills," said North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Jerry Meek. "Democrats believe that just like working families have to balance their checkbooks, our government should have to do the same. Here in North Carolina, Democrats funded our priorities like health care and education, cut taxes for hard-working North Carolinians, and balanced the state budget. Republicans want to run North Carolina like they're running Washington. We will drown in debt if we let them."