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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned lawmakers on Tuesday that the central bank would continue to increase the target federal funds rate as inflationary pressures remain elevated.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 12:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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Hang onto your wallet
Published: Friday, December 30th, 2022 @ 7:21 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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More and more taxes
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Patrick Gleason of Americans for Tax Reform offers Forbes readers a warning about one potential impact of the fall election: tax hikes in 2021.
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina progressive liberal groups and politicians have for years criticized the past decade of conservative tax cuts as being only “for big corporations and the rich.”
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 1:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Is 2020 not bad enough yet?
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 @ 6:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Editors at the Washington Examiner highlight the potential impact for the middle class of proposals progressives are touting on the campaign trail.
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 10:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As many predicted, the California-based consulting firm WestEd is recommending North Carolina spend billions of taxpayer dollars on pre-schools and district schools to meet the requirements of the Leandro case.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 @ 7:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the 36th bill of his administration Friday, Aug. 30, rejecting legislation funding the transformation of Medicaid to a managed-care model.
Published: Monday, September 2nd, 2019 @ 1:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As the Obamacare individual marketplace bleeds unsubsidized enrollees, Blue Cross N.C. is looking to reverse a surge of earlier premium increases.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2019 @ 5:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation’s policy position on the minimum wage concludes with this recommendation
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2018 @ 6:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's doubtful that many of you readers would recommend raising income tax rates by 90 percent to help communities coping with the impact of Hurricane Florence
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 @ 3:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If there's a universe in which lowering the cap on North Carolina's income tax rate amounts to a "tax cut only for the wealthy," our universe's rules of mathematics - and language - must not apply
Published: Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 @ 11:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrat candidate for North Carolina's 13th Congressional district, Bruce Davis, continues to praise Obamacare and bolster his support while premiums more than double and hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians are now without care
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 11:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Politicians around the nation like to say that they have held down tuition at their state universities. Michigan's are no different, and to validate their claim, in 2011 they added incentive-based funding to university appropriations.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 @ 3:00 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The plight of the low-wage fast-food worker has been a focus of some political activism lately. The ostensible goal is drumming up support for significantly raising the minimum wage. Sympathy for workers should not, however, lead one into supporting causes that merely seem to address the problem whi
Published: Friday, December 12th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Harry Price, co-owner of the BesTreads tire retreading business in Davie County, picked up some tires for retreading under contract from the state Department of Transportation, he noticed that the treading on the used tires wasn't up to standard.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's an election year and counties once again can't resist the urge to put a quarter-cent sales tax hike on the November ballot, hoping to reap the rewards of millions in extra revenue, all with the consent of taxpayers.
Published: Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 @ 10:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although hostilities have been underway for some time, I hereby issue a formal Declaration of War against silly, uninformed talking points repeated endlessly in North Carolina politics.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nor can the fault be laid solely at the feet of George W. Bush, or North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, or former governors Bev Perdue and Mike Easley.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2013 @ 6:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Barack Obama's 2013-14 budget plan may be dead on arrival in Congress. Given its unwise tax hikes and unsustainable spending levels, I won't...
Published: Saturday, May 25th, 2013 @ 9:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The big debate about whether Obamacare imposes a "penalty" or a "tax" for not buying health insurance shouldn't blind us to a much more expensive problem: the half-a-trillion dollars Americans will be paying with 19 new or higher taxes in the health care takeover.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 @ 2:33 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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