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“The focus here is to prevent members from being able to profit off of insider information — not to make elected officials poor."
Published: Thursday, January 29th, 2026 @ 1:21 am
By: Daily Wire
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"We request the immediate resignation of Secretary Jennifer Granholm."
Published: Sunday, September 10th, 2023 @ 9:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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Increasing productivity is the key to wealth creation
Published: Sunday, September 25th, 2022 @ 1:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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A bill proposed by Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) on Wednesday would tax university endowments at a 100% rate for investments into Chinese entities deemed a threat to national security.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 3:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Manning listed among the top 20 richest members of Congress.
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Thursday night, the world’s richest man announced he was thinking of creating a new university in Texas, where he had moved the headquarters of his world-famous business from California.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 2:00 am
By: Daily Wire
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Nathan Glazer died last week at the age of 95. He was one of the original neo-conservatives.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2019 @ 4:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Since President Trump has taken office, economic growth rates have soared, 4.2 percent in the last quarter, and unemployment rates are the lowest in decades, at present 3.7 percent
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2018 @ 12:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a simple equation that every first-semester student in macroeconomics learns. It is the equation for measuring gross domestic product or GDP. GDP is used to measure the size of state and national economies
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2018 @ 7:36 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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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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Tax policy is as much about regulation as it is the efficiency and simplicity of raising revenues to pay for government activity
Published: Saturday, January 20th, 2018 @ 4:17 am
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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As the General Assembly continues to work through the 2016-17 budget, part of the final package should build on the tax reforms first implemented in 2011
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2016 @ 11:03 am
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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Recent historic tax reforms have helped North Carolina jump from No. 44 to No. 15 in the Tax Foundation's annual ranking of state business climates
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 10:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you were tuning in to discover the direction of your nation for the next year, you would have been sadly misinformed.
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 8:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am sure many of you rushed home last night, cleared your schedule, and camped out in front of the TV awaiting breathlessly the latest pronouncements of our Dear Leader.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 12:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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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Although the federal income tax system was designed and intended to make up for revenue losses due to tariff reform, it quickly became a primary means to fund the programs of our bloated federal government.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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For the last 2 years many of you have read my rants, exercising my right of free speech, against the present Administration.
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2012 @ 2:48 pm
By: Don Heres
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The official name of the sweeping healthcare reform bill is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148). It passed the House of Congress narrowly, by a vote of 220 - 215.
Published: Saturday, October 13th, 2012 @ 7:58 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This article follows the one I previously wrote, entitled "Who is Really Disenfranchised?" In that article I talked about the incessant claims of "disenfranchisement" of minority voters when no such disenfranchisement exists nor any intent to do so.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2012 @ 8:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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