November 25, 2005
N.C. Political Aide Sought to Cancel a Study by an Economist Who Had Criticized State Taxes
A top assistant to the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives tried to scuttle a state-financed study by an economist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte after the professor criticized state income- and sales-tax rates as too high.
In May, Meredith Norris, who was then the political director for State Rep. James B. Black, shot an e-mail message to officials at the North Carolina Partnership for Economic Development, a nonprofit association of seven regional
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