The best way the county and city can help hold down inflation is to resist all tax increases
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 11:23 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Climate initiatives laid out in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) come with a bigger price tag than anticipated: over $400 billion more, per the latest estimates.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 7:05 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In a Tuesday evening press conference at the N.C. General Assembly, Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced an agreement to abandon, for now, efforts to legalize casinos through the state budget.
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2023 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week, Beer Serves America reported that the beer industry contributes 75,082 jobs and brings in about $1.8 billion in taxes to the state of North Carolina.
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 11:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Beaufort County Board of Commissioners Monday, February 6, 2023 Agenda
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 5:45 pm
By: Katie Mosher
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California Governor Gavin Newsom called for a special session Friday to impose another tax on oil and gas companies.
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 10:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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Harris To Deliver Video Message Urging Congregants In 300 Black Churches To Vote For Terry McAuliffeDemocrat Vice President Kamala Harris is set to deliver a video message to congregants in more than 300 black churches across Virginia urging them to vote for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in November’s election.
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 11:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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Last July the Biden administration instructed Americans to “relish” a supposed savings of 16 cents on a “4th of July BBQ.” Pres. Joe Biden then assured the nation that price increases were “temporary.”
Published: Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats in the Senate voted along party lines on Sunday to pass the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.”
Published: Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 8:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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More and more taxes
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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More taxes
Published: Monday, August 8th, 2022 @ 10:50 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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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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My previous brief discussed Gov. Roy Cooper’s sweeping executive order to change the state’s entire economy and state senators’ letter questioning it.
Published: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 @ 11:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My latest column for the American Institute for Economic Research, “Freedom and Whisky Go Together Like Tyranny and Oppression,” opens at a Burns Night supper in Raleigh not too long ago.
Published: Sunday, February 6th, 2022 @ 12:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Record prize money and contestants for the world-famous fishing tournament emblematic of larger reopening economic trends across the state.
Published: Thursday, June 24th, 2021 @ 9:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you watched last week’s Shaftesbury Society meeting, you heard Cato Institute transportation expert Randal O’Toole’s recommendation that North Carolina rely more on user fees to meet its transportation needs.
Published: Friday, June 11th, 2021 @ 4:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It has been four years since the legislature last passed a significant tax reform.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State ABC stores are doing record business, at least part of which can be attributed to pandemic-related lockdowns.
Published: Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 @ 11:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Here is the interview Alex Newman of The New American Magazine and I did on December 23.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2021 @ 8:38 am
By: Publius Huldah
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With Democrats in charge of the White House, and U.S. House, and (possibly as of this writing) the U.S. Senate, you can expect a push by left-wing activists and politicians to repeal some federal tax cuts enacted by the previously Republican Congress and signed by President Trump.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 2:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A January 27 article in the News & Observer announced that a bill to make North Carolina a license state for selling liquor is unlikely to receive a vote this year.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Raleigh continues to hope its free downtown bus, the R-Line Circulator, has more lasting significance than The Ting Tings. Still, recent decisions to end the free circulator bus service in Nashville and Washington, D.C., suggest it may be time to end the experiment here as well.
Published: Saturday, January 11th, 2020 @ 9:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Distilleries, wineries, and breweries are growing at an exponential rate. All with an eye on Washington, D.C., and, in our case, Raleigh.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2020 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Expect many of this year's debates to omit important questions about the impact of new taxes.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2020 @ 5:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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During the golden age of tapping, in the 1930s and early 1940s, this quintessential American art form played a sizable role in pop culture.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Thousands of distillers, brewers, and vintners across the country, are worried. Probably rightfully so.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 8:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Mecklenburg County voters on Tuesday rejected a local quarter cent sales tax hike sold as a way to raise funds for area art projects and parks.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2019 @ 6:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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It has begun. Or, probably more accurately, a local and statewide crusade to prevent privatization of North Carolina’s liquor business is intensifying.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2019 @ 5:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Unless you are buying your marijuana from a dispensary in a state where it’s legal, you probably aren’t paying taxes on your illicit substances.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2019 @ 8:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Employer-sponsored health insurance coverage is a unique feature of the American health care system.
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2019 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, won’t seek re-election when his term expires next year, but he’s far from finished.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 1:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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What is the difference between hemp and marijuana?
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 11:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since the end of Prohibition over eight decades ago, North Carolina has been a "control" state for liquor.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system — created in 1937 in the wake of the repeal of Prohibition — for the past 80-plus years has remained mostly static.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 7:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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