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When government decides to buy something, cost increases are sure to follow. One reason is that people are generally less cost-conscious when they’re spending other people’s money. Government decision-makers are people spending revenues collected from other people.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Executives at Silicon Valley Bank are reeling after learning one of the most brutal lessons in banking: if you invest your money irresponsibly, the government will just bail you out.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 5:24 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Highlights the Work of NCCash.com, Gives Lesson on Government to Students
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: ENC NOW
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This presented resolution to protect personal and public property in the face of sanctioned lawlessness is a broad encouragement to the public, and all governments to make a stand to ward off Anarchists and Fascists who are determine to destroy our Republic.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 10:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawless federal government
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 1:09 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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This week, U.S Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues introduced an amendment to the Senate Rules to require that all bills passed by Senate committees include inflationary impact statements
Published: Friday, October 15th, 2021 @ 8:12 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Is 'three times in a row a charm' in the tax raising business here in Beaufort County? Nonetheless, its government's majority believes that yet another tax raise in three consecutive years suits its citizens just fine; so charmed we must be.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 4:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tax increases deprive citizens of the chance to meet increasingly important financial priorities in order to fund less important government programs
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 @ 8:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of the advantages of observing the many incentives being thrown at Amazon is that it highlights the absurdities of cronyism and government meddling in the market
Published: Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 @ 12:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I generally don't have time to report immediately on issues unless I am covering government meetings, where I do report pithy highlights almost immediately. This week was busy, so fortunately, I now have the time to offer my take on the biggest faux news from the Democrat Media.
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 11:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The United States expresses grave concern about the Cambodian government's dissolution of the country's main opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), based on meritless and politicized allegations that it participated in a conspiracy to overthrow the government
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2017 @ 3:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Donald Trump is tireless and determined. He is committed to the movement, a grassroots movement, which wants to clean up government and make it work FOR the People and not against them.
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2016 @ 1:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Regardless of the election results, on Wednesday all of us at the John Locke Foundation will come to work with the same goal we've had since the doors opened in 1990: Restraining government to its core, constitutional functions and enacting policies that expand freedom and opportunity
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Often the best thing government can do is get out of the way. We've seen the results of that type of approach over the last six years with less government regulation, fewer taxes and greater access to free markets
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2016 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Regardless of whether you think the National Endowment for the Arts is a wonderful organization deserving taxpayer support or an example of the federal government exceeded its proper bounds, I'm willing to bet you believe the NEA plays a bigger role in funding the arts than it actually does.
Published: Friday, January 22nd, 2016 @ 10:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Economic Concept Of Crowding Out Explains How Government Money To Planned Parenthood Funds AbortionsRegardless of how one feels about abortion or Planned Parenthood generally, this article by Manhattan Institute economist Preston Cooper explains why it makes no sense to argue that government funding of Planned Parenthood is not subsidizing abortions. Cooper invokes the economic concept of...
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 12:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Significantly lower gas prices at the pump the last several months have put more money in the pockets of NC motorists. But because of the adjustable portion of the state gas tax, lower gas prices would also mean less money to state government coffers. Apparently, some state legislators can't...
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 1:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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More than half of North Carolina voters and 70 percent of Republicans would be less likely to re-elect Gov. Pat McCrory if he supported the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, according to a poll released today by the Foundation for Government Accountability.
Published: Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 @ 7:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last night, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted in favor of a provision to rein in the government's unlawful spying on U.S. citizens.
Published: Friday, June 20th, 2014 @ 5:23 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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There is nothing moral about the way military veterans are treated by the VA – unless you are a government union boss. J. David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees
Published: Friday, June 20th, 2014 @ 12:25 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Even though he lacks the blessing of the GOP leadership in Congress, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is pushing a national health care reform he says would do precisely what the GOP establishment has pushed — repealing and replacing government-driven Obamacare with a system allowing more...
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 2:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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News flash from the Left: The new legislative leadership is rolling back years of laws made under the old leadership.This is a surprise? Were these folks not paying attention during the election when conservatives promised smaller government with lower taxes, more accountability and...
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 @ 6:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Young adults largely supported Barack Obama's message of hope and change during his 2008 presidential campaign. Now, four years later, many young people are struggling with the impact of the nation's economic changes.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remember the embarrassing Solyndra debacle perpetrated by the federal government? You would think that North Carolina lawmakers would have learned a lesson about the futility of granting government privileges to inefficient "green" energy schemes. Think again.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 @ 7:38 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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How nice it is for some people to declare that other people should continue to pay more and more in taxes to support a reckless and corrupt government.
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2011 @ 11:29 am
By: Diane Rufino
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