Hard to look at this when you know that the surplus has been built on the back of under-funding public education.

Yes, NC is a great place to conduct business for business owners. Consider how low the corporate tax rates are.

That headline from EdNC.org above highlights a report from the Education Law Center.

That’s NC way down there at the bottom.

#1 for business. #48 for funding public education.

Mary Ann Wolfe said it best in a perspective for EdNC.org:

That state surplus is really a moral deficit.