A five-year-old lawsuit challenging North Carolina's voter ID and tax cap state constitutional amendments will head to a three-judge panel.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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An influential staffer at the General Assembly recently described NCInnovation as a “free market approach”
Published: Thursday, September 14th, 2023 @ 7:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Vice President Mike Pence has officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign, just days after officially filing to run.
Published: Saturday, June 24th, 2023 @ 10:57 am
By: Daily Wire
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The difference between Republican governance and Democrat tax and spend
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 8:09 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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The N.C. Supreme Court will look much different in 2023. Voters decided in November to oust one incumbent Democrat from the state’s highest court.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The new proposed tax cut schedule would lower the personal income tax rate to 2.49% after 2026.
Published: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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My latest piece at the American Institute for Economic Research discusses the particularly harmful impact progressive income taxes have on productivity and the poor.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 8:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers cut taxes in the last biennium budget, lowering the dollar amount workers owe to the state.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 10:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Though the national media often fails to give them attention, state tax reforms are underway across the country.
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 @ 7:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court dismissed as "moot" a request to speed up proceedings in a lawsuit challenging two state constitutional amendments.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. NAACP is seeking a "writ of mandamus" from the N.C. Supreme Court. It would speed up action in a case targeting state constitutional amendments for voter ID and a lower income tax cap.
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina is among states that have taken a rightward shift in policy outcomes since 2010.
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2022 @ 1:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With a 4-3 party-line vote, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed that two voter-approved state constitutional amendments could be thrown out. They have sent the case back to a trial judge to make that decision.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As tax reform heats up across the country, high-tax states should take notice
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2022 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lower income taxes allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money and spend it on their needs
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2022 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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CNBC ranked North Carolina as the #1 state for business and economy in 2022. North Carolina has consistently been a top 10 contender and last year was the runner-up, but what caused the state to take the top spot?
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 8:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Coming this fall
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 7:37 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID law complies with the state constitution and should survive a legal challenge.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New analysis from the Tax Foundation finds that – surprise! – high-tax states lost population while low-tax states gained residents.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Supreme Court Justices Tamara Barringer and Phil Berger Jr. confirmed late Friday afternoon that they will take part in a high-profile case involving two challenged amendments to the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 9:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers representing the state NAACP defend N.C. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls in their latest filing at the state’s high court.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 8:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Three former N.C. Supreme Court justices, all Republicans, are urging the current court not to move forward with forcibly removing colleagues from a high-profile voter ID case.
Published: Thursday, December 9th, 2021 @ 8:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Voters would bear the brunt of the harm if the N.C. Supreme Court decides to boot two of its members from considering a high-profile case involving voter ID.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 6:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Nearly two dozen N.C. law professors have signed on to two new friend-of-the-court briefs in a high-profile N.C. Supreme Court case involving voter ID. Both briefs filed Tuesday urge the state Supreme Court to remove two Republican justices from hearing the case.
Published: Sunday, November 28th, 2021 @ 7:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As the N.C. Supreme Court considers whether to boot two Republican justices from a high-profile case involving voter ID, three former chief justices are weighing in.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 9:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Republicans of the N.C. General Assembly have once again delivered a budget that cuts taxes for all, leaving even more of North Carolinians hard-earned money in their own pockets.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:32 pm
By: Jeff Moore
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A retired UNC law school constitutional expert says forced removal of Supreme Court justices from consideration of a case would be “particularly dangerous.”
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 7:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The head of the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law raises serious questions about a plan to block two N.C. Supreme Court justices from hearing a case involving voter ID.
Published: Monday, October 4th, 2021 @ 6:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Biden agenda destroy, destroy, destroy
Published: Monday, September 27th, 2021 @ 5:20 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Recent op-eds and editorials from the News & Observer have lambasted the state legislature’s plan to use a budget surplus to cut taxes.
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 7:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"This surplus came largely out of the pockets of North Carolina citizens and they deserve to see some of it returned to them."
Published: Sunday, June 27th, 2021 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A proposed tax cut from Senate Republicans would move North Carolina to fifth in the state business tax climate rankings, the Tax Foundation says.
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 7:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Personal income tax rates would be slashed and the corporate tax rate entirely eliminated by 2028 under a proposal rolled out on Tuesday, May 25, by N.C. Senate Republicans.
Published: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 @ 8:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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