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"No tax on inflation"
Published: Saturday, August 29th, 2026 @ 6:31 pm
By: John Steed
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extreme tax increases, and abominable unrealized capital gains tax
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2024 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Steed
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk slammed Democrats in a tweet on Monday over a proposal they are considering that would tax unrealized capital gains.
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2022 @ 3:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: Democrats Considering To ‘Impose A Tax On Unrealized Capital Gains’Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that Senate Democrats are considering a proposal to impose a tax on unrealized capital gains of the wealthiest Americans.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 7:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Houston Rockets and several other businesses, warned during an interview this week that if Democrats pass a tax on unrealized capital gains that it would destroy capitalism in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 2:22 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Friday, Michael Adder, the political cartoonist for the Washington Post, mocked the Freedom Convoy of truckers crossing the breadth of Canada and heading for the nation’s capital, Ottawa, to protest against Canada’s vaccine mandate.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 1:44 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina needs to reform its approach to taxing capital gains. As I have noted in a previous analysis for the John Locke Foundation, the current system ignores the fundamental nature of capital gains taxes.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On many different occasions, I have argued that, from an economics perspective, North Carolina should abolish its tax on capital gains
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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any discussion of public policy, I think it is impossible to talk intelligently about questions like "good enough" or "fair enough" without asking first "by what standard?"
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2018 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A couple of weeks ago, I argued that North Carolina’s legislature should “one-up” Congress and the Trump administration when it comes to tax reform by abolishing the state’s capital gains tax.
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 4:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent tax reform passed by Republicans in Congress and enthusiastically signed by President Trump, went a long way toward fixing what had become a federal tax system that was discouraging work effort, investment, and entrepreneurship
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2018 @ 10:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina policymakers should boost entrepreneurship and economic growth by focusing their next round of tax reform on capital gains
Published: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Economics & Environment Update: Time to get serious about capital gains, the next step in tax reformLast week I discussed and endorsed the idea that, instead of trying to create a consumption tax by abolishing the income tax and reforming the sales tax, North Carolina should instead use the existing apparatus of the income tax to accomplish that same goal.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's tax code penalizes savings and investment by double taxing their returns - specifically interest, dividends, and capital gains. These biases can only be eliminated by removing savings and investment from the tax base, or by eliminating the returns to saving; for example...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina can continue the positive economic momentum of its recent tax reforms by reducing or repealing the state's tax on capital gains.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 6:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2013 North Carolina instituted sweeping tax reform and began the process of making its tax system more efficient and more consistent with liberty.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 9:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This year's short session of the General Assembly may live up to its name. Lawmakers return to the capital today for the first time since the historic 2013 session in which they reformed the tax code, cut taxes, enacted broad changes to election laws, fought back against Medicaid expansion and...
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 12:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Gerald Ford once quipped in the middle of a presidential debate, "It was my understanding that there would be no math."
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 5:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We hear that figures don't lie - but we all know (or should know) that liars figure. So be careful. In places like MN and IA it would seem that the so called "figuring" is really simply counting (or is it mis-counting??).
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2012 @ 9:03 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Okay, we've established that no one wants to pay higher taxes for anything - on income; for goods or services; on capital gains; on estates; and most especially for motor fuel.
Published: Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 @ 8:02 am
By: Marc Finlayson
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