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An agency in the United Nations designed to lead international efforts to defeat hunger is reportedly expected to call on the West — including the United States — to reduce meat consumption to combat so-called climate change.
Published: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 11:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Supervised drug consumption sites allow people to bring their own drugs.
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2023 @ 11:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is recommending limits on consumption of certain freshwater fish from the middle and lower Cape Fear River based on concerns about exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) found in fish sampled from that area.
Published: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 7:41 am
By: ENC NOW
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In 2013, the new General Assembly held the sales tax at 4.75%, while expanding the base. Consumption-based taxes like the sales tax are more stable and less economically destructive than income taxes which discourage savings and investment.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Energy Department proposed new rules Wednesday that would mandate a certain energy consumption threshold for gas stoves even after the possibility of a nationwide ban garnered backlash.
Published: Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ 12:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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European households and businesses will need to significantly reduce energy consumption in order to maintain reserves through the upcoming winter, according to the International Energy Agency.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:49 pm
By: Daily Wire
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that the European Union might redistribute profits from fossil fuel companies and impose energy consumption limits.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 @ 10:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) reminded residents of the Golden State to reduce power consumption on Tuesday to avoid blackouts less than two months after he mocked Texas for similar problems.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 11:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today Governor Roy Cooper signed an Executive Order authorizing the North Carolina ABC Commission to permit the delivery or carry-out of mixed beverages as an alternative to on-site consumption.
Published: Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 @ 2:29 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Program Evaluation Division has a compiled and released a comprehensive report that looks at how North Carolina regulates and controls liquor sales and offers ways and legislative options toward changing and modernizing the process.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 @ 3:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Despite a dip in total alcohol consumption, U.S. drinkers bought more than 230 million nine-liter cases of distilled spirits in 2018 - a 1.9 percent increase on the previous year.
Published: Saturday, January 26th, 2019 @ 9:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Proponents of our ABC system make so much of the commission's power and propensity to "control" - rather than sell and market - spirits in North Carolina. Curbing alcohol consumption, keeping it out of the hands of minors, etc.
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 @ 1:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In the United States, there are between 45 and 46 million turkeys killed each year by profit-seeking farmers for consumption at Thanksgiving dinners around the country
Published: Thursday, November 29th, 2018 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture approved North Carolina's request for a hot food waiver in all 100 counties, allowing Food and Nutrition Services (food stamps) recipients to purchase hot food prepared for immediate consumption from authorized Electronic Benefits Transfer retailers
Published: Monday, October 17th, 2016 @ 7:40 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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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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Over the last few years, ever since the tax reform of 2013 took hold in North Carolina, there has been a steady push to expand the sales tax to services in an attempt to make it a more pure consumption tax.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the last few years, ever since the tax reform of 2013 took hold in North Carolina, there has been a steady push to expand the sales tax to services in an attempt to make it a more pure consumption tax
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2016 @ 5:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two leading legislative critics of tax incentives to the renewable energy industry have not taken issue with an unusual new program used by Duke Energy Progress allowing high-consumption electricity customers using traditional energy to claim their plants are powered by renewable sources
Published: Sunday, February 21st, 2016 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory last week pleaded with parents across North Carolina to talk to their children about underage consumption of alcohol.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the days of Nebbia and West Coast Hotel, challenges to economic regulation have almost universally failed. Particularly in the realm of alcohol, where the State historically plays a role in regulating the distribution and consumption of an intoxicating product, it would be difficult to...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I have never been a fan of the Fair Tax, a proposal to abolish the income tax and substitute a national sales tax. My opposition has nothing to do with the merits of a national sales tax as opposed to an income tax per se. Clearly, as an economist, I agree that the proper and most efficient tax...
Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 @ 2:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University researchers are in the second year of a long-range alcohol consumption study aimed at helping students make safer choices.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 2:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It's doubtful that any of the participants in a recent legislative debate meant to offer a free advertisement for the John Locke Foundation's proposed Unlimited Savings Allowance, or USA, Consumption Tax.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 7:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Politicians in Raleigh and DC, aided and abetted by our oft-clueless media, are railing about how the only way to fix our economic mess is to get the 'guv-mint' MO' revenue.
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 11:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina's tax on retail sales needs reforming. At the present time, there exists a hodgepodge of taxes on consumption and sales that show very little consistency or forethought.
Published: Monday, August 20th, 2012 @ 2:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Saturday May 5th, Washington Police Officers arrested Christopher Clevon Freeman, age 19 of Van Norden Street for underage consumption of alcohol. Additional charges of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of a stolen firearm resulted from the encounter
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 @ 2:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Symbiotic Publisher, a complex script, with its own content management system (CMS) unique to itself, that will manage and power elaborate and simple websites alike, is now ready for the public's use.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 @ 10:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, most people only fear the consumption of too much salt; and don't realize that being salt deficient can be equally damaging to one's body.
Published: Monday, January 31st, 2011 @ 2:15 pm
By: BCN
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