Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute offers Daily Caller readers a list of reasons to oppose the Biden administration’s infrastructure proposals.
Published: Saturday, June 12th, 2021 @ 4:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Corporate Welfare Program Continues to Benefit Wealthy Counties, Awards Another $624 Million in 2020North Carolina’s largest “economic incentive” program continued to favor the state’s already wealthy counties, according to a new report.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 2:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The economy is rigged, but not in the way Bernie Sanders thinks — capitalism is not the problem.
Published: Thursday, May 6th, 2021 @ 7:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s a beautiful day for golfing in Pinehurst, or so North Carolina’s politicians would have you believe.
Published: Saturday, September 12th, 2020 @ 4:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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News reports now confirm what many suspected: legislation approved and signed by Gov. Cooper last week entitled “Championship NC Act” (HB 807) will dole out millions of taxpayer dollars to the United States Golf Association (USGA) to build a second headquarters in Pinehurst.
Published: Saturday, September 12th, 2020 @ 6:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday sent a letter to North Carolina’s Congressional delegates asking the federal government for more financial help.
Published: Monday, July 20th, 2020 @ 11:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In 2018 Time, declared Georgia “the Hollywood of the South.” By then, Georgia had developed the largest film incentive program in the entire United States.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 @ 12:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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How should the State of North Carolina go about corporate taxation and corporate welfare? There are four possible policy combinations.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2020 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes has examined job creation promises from North Carolina economic-development incentives programs and found them falling far, far short.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 @ 4:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The holiday season may be upon us, but there is no shortage of political happenings in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2019 @ 8:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week, Civitas Action released its annual state legislative rankings for 2019.
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 @ 4:16 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N&O this weekend published an editorial declaring that North Carolina’s corporate income tax cuts are “not working.”
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 4:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Roy Cooper once again is displaying his blatant hypocrisy on corporate taxes.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 12:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The budget standoff in North Carolina is generating national attention, which focuses on the debate over Medicaid expansion. But there's another policy standoff in Raleigh, and it's interesting not just for what's up for debate, but also for what isn't.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 3:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Anything done a first time becomes easier to do a second time, for better and for worse.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 9:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now and then you'll encounter a public servant actually questioning the bad numbers propping up a bad policy proposal, and it's as refreshing as, well, any scene from a lite beer commercial. Remember when the Maryland county executive held back on imposing a $15 per hour minimum wage.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 7:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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States and municipalities courting of large corporations such as Amazon and Apple has brought the folly of economic development tax incentives into the public awareness
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2018 @ 7:52 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Apple surprised the business world Thursday with an announcement it was investing $1 billion in a new campus in Austin, Texas. The announcement also included news of new sites in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, California, and expansions in Pittsburgh, New York, and Boulder, Colorado.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 4:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a safe bet that state Rep. Jonathan Jordan agrees with Republican colleagues Bill Brawley, Susan Martin, and Scott Stone much more often than he agrees with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incoming New York congresswoman and newly elevated champion of the political left
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When are special interest subsidies not just special interest subsidies?
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2018 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently, the Beaufort County GOP elected to support the candidacy of Frankie Waters even though he has publicly professed an alliance with Liberals in support of Liberal issues for Beaufort County; raging, rampant tax escalations all in support of a "progressive Beaufort County".
Published: Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 @ 1:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina legislative leaders released their agreed-upon budget proposal Monday, with votes expected to take place this week
Published: Monday, June 4th, 2018 @ 11:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Try as I might, I can't see the wisdom behind this proposed "transformative" projects expansion. I can't. It's terrible
Published: Thursday, May 24th, 2018 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has a history of publicly denouncing “corporate tax giveaways.” Indeed, last year he offered up this question: “Are we going to invest in education and our people, or are we going to continue with further corporate tax giveaways?”
Published: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 @ 4:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The spending total in his proposal comes to $24.54 billion, $500 million more than the $23.9 billion spending target recently agreed upon by the legislature.
Published: Thursday, May 17th, 2018 @ 7:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you think corporate incentives are only used to attract businesses, think again
Published: Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 @ 1:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, February 1st, 2018 @ 1:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This morning, Triad Business Journal ran a piece with the title, “N.C. governor ‘open to options’ to keep NFL in Charlotte.” Of course, we all know what that means: state money, tax breaks, incentive payments, corporate welfare
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 6:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers and the business community have been watching Amazon's search for a second headquarters with bated breath
Published: Friday, January 19th, 2018 @ 3:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina, among many other states, are in a tizzy trying to land the reported “second headquarters” of Amazon
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2018 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the years I’ve written several articles about the differences between economic growth and economic development
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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MLS has chosen finalists for their next two expansion teams, and neither North Carolina bid made the cut.
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 11:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover, bucked conservative critics who strenuously objected to making a $30-million taxpayer subsidy to Hollywood a permanent annual state allocation
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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