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: Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 @ 10:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Republican leaders are pretty excited about getting toll roads approved. (We thought the era of squeezing more money out of working people's pockets was over.)
Published: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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There was a time when the GOP was recognized as the group who would cut your taxes, shrink government, and back the bureaucracy off of your case.
Published: Sunday, June 1st, 2014 @ 4:08 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The price of sound tax policy is eternal vigilance, and a year after the N.C. General Assembly implemented a tax reform plan based on sound principles of taxation and economics, it is threatening to begin the process of unraveling these reforms with a new excise tax on e-cigarettes.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory joined Reynolds American Inc. CEO Susan Cameron and local and state leaders in Forsyth County today at an expansion announcement by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company that will bring 200 new jobs to the region.
Published: Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 @ 2:11 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The state House pushed ahead Tuesday with House Bill 1050, limiting the amount of money North Carolina cities and towns could charge businesses for privilege licenses. The bill, which would cap municipal privilege licenses at $100 per year, is part of a catch-all tax package designed to tweak...
Published: Tuesday, May 27th, 2014 @ 1:05 am
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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Officials in Beaufort County passed a new ordinance that prohibits smoking and the use of other tobacco products and e-cigarettes in County buildings, vehicles and within fifty feet of all County buildings, beginning October 1, 2013.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 1:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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