Nearly three months into the fiscal year, a budget bill has finally arrived
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2023 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, both chambers of the state legislature sent House Bill 259, the state budget, to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk for his signature.
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 11:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina continues to make headlines for its economic development incentives
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 11:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Diverting scarce resources to failed projects represents waste in our economy
Published: Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 @ 4:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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WRAL TechWire yesterday published my column on the surge in billion-dollar corporate welfare giveaways in North Carolina over the past year.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 1:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As thousands of small businesses were forced to close for good as a result of his economic lockdowns, Gov. Cooper’s administration handed out $1.2 billion worth of corporate welfare to giant corporations like Apple, FujiFilm, and Toyota in 2021.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2022 @ 7:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Economic equality is an unattainable goal – and that’s the point.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 10:03 am
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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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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The North Carolina Senate's budget plan would increase state spending at half the rate proposed by Gov. Roy Cooper and include a tax cut package projected to save taxpayers $1 billion over its first two years of implementation
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2017 @ 1:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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The General Assembly is three months into the long session. More than 1,700 bills have been filed with fewer than 50 (as of this writing) now law.
Published: Thursday, May 9th, 2013 @ 7:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you check out Forbes Magazine's List of the Best Places for Business and Careers, you will find a slideshow of silver skyscrapers hailing the prosperity of Raleigh and other North Carolina metro areas - but failing to show economic reality elsewhere in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 11:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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