A Really Big Claim for NC Cash

RALEIGH – Richard Moore is state treasurer of North Carolina, a rising Democratic star, and a likely gubernatorial candidate in 2008. But perhaps most North Carolinians know him as the guy they’ve seen in those NC Cash ads (helpfully produced at state expense) who offers to help them recover their lost insurance refunds and lapsed bank accounts.

Richard is an energetic, creative, and dutiful public servant (who occasionally errs, but to do so is human). He’s done a great job marketing the escheats fund. In fact, I like him so much that I’m thinking about asking him to help recover some other money I and many others were mistakenly forced to pay. I’m talking, of course, about the hundreds of millions of dollars that North Carolina taxpayers will pay through June 30 of this year in sales and income taxes that were supposed to expire at the end of the last fiscal year.

John Hood