Taxing food

“If we tax bread, we also will be taxing cake; if we tax fatback, we also will tax caviar; if we tax cornmeal, we also will tax filet mignon. No one is going to go hungry because of this tax….But the children of North Carolina will go thirsty for quality education if we do not enact this program for better schools.”

“In looking back at his administration, Sanford said that his most satisfying moment came the day the day the House enacted the food tax into law. At last, money was available to give substance to the dream.” (The New Day, Sam Ragan, editor, Record Publishing, 1964, page 15)

--NC Governor Terry Sanford

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What a waste of money for Collectivist education.
--Brock


I would guess that Sanford was a Frank Porter Graham disciple, the devoted socialist who collectivized the UNC system. If you wonder why much North Carolina architecture since the 1950’s looks like Soviet factories, thank Graham for hiring Herr Kamphoefner as Dean of the NC State architecture school – who fired the traditionally-trained professors and replaced them with fellow-travelers. These people were all collectivists, and saw no immorality in taxing the food we need for survival.
--BT