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Legislative leaders call for new Leandro Judge James Ammons to slice the state's education spending obligation from $677 million to $377 million.
Published: Sunday, April 9th, 2023 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Another free-market think tank has ranked Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper positively with regard to fiscal policy, with the Cato Institute’s new governor’s rankings putting Cooper 6th overall. Cooper was the only Democrat in the top 10 and received a “B” grade overall.
Published: Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 @ 12:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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More and more taxes
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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A decade of fiscal responsibility and sustainable government could be squandered unless North Carolina taxpayers build some financial guardrails in the state constitution.
Published: Sunday, December 6th, 2020 @ 9:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As Tears for Fears sang in the 1980s, everybody wants their taxes lower.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Time is running out for North Carolina’s State Health Plan.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 @ 12:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For the first time in state history, the governor is introducing a budget proposal in August.
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2020 @ 10:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Congress and President Trump are testing whether there are any limits to debt-financed fiscal policy.
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2020 @ 7:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As the 2020 election season gathers momentum, North Carolina's tax reforms and demands for higher spending on any number of government programs will be front and center.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2019 @ 10:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Department of Transportation’s financial woes may be over, but its headaches live on.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 8:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of healthcare stakeholders met in Raleigh last week for a first-ever “listen and learn” session focused on two questions: How much should we spend on healthcare and how should these dollars be advocated?
Published: Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 @ 10:07 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Would North Carolina be a better place without an income tax? A recent Bankrate.com article compared the nine states that forgo broad-based personal income taxes with the rest of the country on economy, population, and jobs
Published: Monday, August 20th, 2018 @ 12:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Large majorities of North Carolina voters support enshrining additional rights and responsibilities in the state constitution in the latest polling by the Civitas Institute
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 @ 5:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Back in October, General Fund revenues were $50.4 million behind projections, not much when the state expects to collect $23.1 billion for the year. Despite the relatively small difference, the usual advocates for higher taxes were out wringing their hands about the shortfall
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 @ 3:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The writer of Ecclesiastes says, "For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven." During hard times we recognize the need to hunker down and reduce spending.
Published: Saturday, April 30th, 2016 @ 10:07 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Despite the welcome news of a budget surplus in Raleigh, the fiscal and economic forecast for North Carolina over the next couple of years is not all blue skies and placid seas.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 2:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The two chambers of the General Assembly have been unable to agree on their budget adjustments for the 2014-15 fiscal year, which begins Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina state budget writers would have more flexibility to fund teacher pay raises, address Medicaid cost overruns, create jobs, and generate a surplus, if they adopt a budget technique identified in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and the rest of the House GOP leadership have pretty much stomped out the last vestiges of the GOP's claim to being the party of smaller government.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 8:56 am
By: Brant Clifton
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One of the more irritating features of popular political discourse involves the common problem of pundits and prognosticators fixating on a single fact or data point while ignoring broader, more important issues.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 12:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina legislators can maximize their flexibility for tax reform and unanticipated Medicaid spending by using a "reverse logrolling" approach...
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 2:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina legislators can maximize their flexibility for tax reform and unanticipated Medicaid spending by using a "reverse logrolling" approach to the final state budget deal. That's the conclusion of a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 @ 7:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Does state tax policy affect state economic growth? Fiscal conservatives tend to say yes. Fiscal liberals tend to say no.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The newcomers down at the WDN have made a startling discovery: Not everyone who registers or gets elected as a "Republican" votes the way Republicans are supposed to vote.
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2012 @ 11:32 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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We are now at that time of the year when your elected county commissioners will decide how much of your money they will take using the police power of the State.
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2012 @ 6:17 am
By: Hood Richardson
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There's a great deal of magic incantation in traditional fantasy literature, of course. Think of the Evil Queen consulting her spellbook to transform her appearance and concoct her poison apple for Snow White.
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Gov. Bev Perdue and liberal activists want to know why their Edu-scare campaign against the Republican-led General Assembly didn't work last year and won't work this year, they need only to consider the insight of essayist Kahil Gibran.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2012 @ 10:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Deatherage votes for majority of cuts, other five vote against
Published: Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 @ 5:33 pm
By: BCN
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