Does the money you earn from your labor belong to you? This question is important and draws a distinction between economic conservatives and progressives
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 4:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The President's Outstanding State of the Union Address:
Published: Thursday, February 1st, 2018 @ 2:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Almost exactly 15 years ago, I wrote an education reform plan for the John Locke Foundation entitled “Reach for the STARS."
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most of us have jobs, and with those jobs come certain benefits, most noticeably health care and retirement benefits. The same is true for state employees.
Published: Friday, April 11th, 2014 @ 6:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I watched most of the State of the Union Address; some of you watched all of it, most of you watched none of it, which, in this case, is most understandable.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As a finance and economics professor, I often encounter students with scarce financial knowledge. While students finish high school well-versed in topics such as dangerous drugs and sex, often they know little about basic financial concepts such as compounding interest or the mechanics of the...
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 7:16 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I saw a commercial on TV the other morning that nearly made me spew my Cheerios. Some vaguely-named council or coalition was running an ad praising US Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) for the following: "Creating Jobs", "Making college affordable".
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gamblers on a losing streak often resort to desperately making riskier bets to try to make up for their previous losses - a move that rarely pays off and which usually leaves them even poorer.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 7:29 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you have been following things in the mainstream media, you may have heard something about Cyprus and its banks (slipped somewhere in between stories about Justin Bieber and Beyoncé).
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 1:41 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The world is in an uproar over a financial bailout offered by The European Union to the island nation of Cyprus.
Published: Thursday, March 21st, 2013 @ 10:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Whether the setting is Raleigh or Washington, the tax reform debate will inevitably come down to one Big Question: Are you willing to trade current tax preferences for lower marginal tax rates?
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Replacing North Carolina's existing income, corporate, sales, and estate taxes with a new consumed-income tax dubbed the USA Tax could generate 80,500 new jobs in the first year, while boosting the state's economy by $11.76 billion.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 10:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Did you know that the State of NC Department of Commerce runs a program (in addition to all the other things it does) designed to bring retirees to a specific community?? Which community, you ask??
Published: Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 @ 8:31 am
By: Jim Bispo
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According to a front page article in the 11/15 WDN, we have a group of Citizens that wants to undertake a "study" to determine if Beaufort County would benefit from a county tourism authority.
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2012 @ 9:26 am
By: Jim Bispo
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If during the past few years of fiscal instability, you consoled yourself with the fact that at least North Carolina's pension fund for teachers and state employees was sound, I'm going to ruin your day.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2012 @ 5:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the better part of a century, U.S. politicians have made it one of their major goals to maximize the proportion of Americans who purchase rather than rent their primary dwellings.
Published: Thursday, June 14th, 2012 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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How do you think all those politicians in Washington, DC got to be so good at covering up how much money they are really spending? They learned how to do it in places like Little Washington, NC.
Published: Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 @ 1:43 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Randell Woodruff, currently the Camden County Manager, is hired to be Beaufort County's next county manager. By a vote of 6 to 1, the county commissioners appointed the 54 year old executive to take over the reins from Interim County Manager Jim Chrisman.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 @ 8:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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