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The latest findings from a recent Civitas Poll on voter favor of capitalism over socialism
Published: Saturday, August 5th, 2023 @ 7:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government subsidies involve policymakers using your money to prop up politically chosen initiatives
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government Spending is the True Tax
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Your money may be used to argue for viewpoints that you may disagree with, and in ways that you did not consent to. Moreover, your money may be invested in ways that fail to maximize the greatest financial return.
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 8:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Young people have a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism
Published: Friday, November 25th, 2022 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Representative Ted Budd has won the North Carolina Senate race against Democratic candidate Cheri Beasley.
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Three charts show how bad administrative bloat gets when government bureaucracy takes over.
Published: Monday, July 18th, 2022 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As we enter July of 2022, Americans all over the country will begin their July 4th preparations. They will soon be confronted once again with the harsh reality of elevated prices due to continuing inflation.
Published: Monday, July 18th, 2022 @ 2:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today is the 92nd birthday of arguably the most influential social and political theorist of our generation, Thomas Sowell.
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 7:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Inflation is a deeply regressive tax, impacting all Americans, especially low-income households
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2022 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Republicans, warned during an interview on Sunday that President Joe Biden’s massive social spending agenda, known as the Build Back Better Act, would cause Americans to pay more for many things as inflation and taxes go up.
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2022 @ 9:21 am
By: Daily Wire
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Recently the John Locke Foundation team met with candidates running for local office. We highlighted critical principles for local government’s fiscal health and sustainability.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Inflation is perplexing. On an individual level, it inflicts harm on consumers at no fault of their own.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 6:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Whether it is filling up at the pump, paying more for goods and services, or not finding your favorite item on the grocery store shelves, there is no denying that inflation and supply chain issues have affected everyone in one way or another.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 11:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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One of the most prophetic quotes attributed to George Washington is as follows: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2022 @ 1:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We should never equate compassion or morality with a government program
Published: Thursday, December 9th, 2021 @ 11:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several years ago, a German economist and engineer drafted a vision for what the world might look like after the coronavirus pandemic is over. He described how countries could come together to facilitate
Published: Sunday, November 14th, 2021 @ 7:06 am
By: John Woodard
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Lew Uhler, Peter Ferrara, and Joe Yocca write for Issues and Insights about President Biden’s destructive impact on American families’ daily lives.
Published: Friday, October 29th, 2021 @ 7:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A 1980 Series by Milton Friedman
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 11:54 am
By: Bobby Tony
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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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Victoria Spartz has lived it and knows the dangers. Now, she leads the fight against the omnipresent state.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2020 @ 11:57 am
By: LifeZette
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The times have a fin de siècle feel for small-government conservatives.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 4:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Remarks by President Trump at Presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Dr. Arthur Laffer
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 12:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Milton Friedman once observed that "nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 @ 11:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Government programs such as welfare and other social means-tested programs characterize very well the government's general policy towards poverty: Make individuals "comfortable" in their poverty rather than incentivize them to become self-sufficient.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 @ 9:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Proving that great minds think alike, both Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and the Bard himself, William Shakespeare, memorably described the human tendency towards hypocrisy
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Citizens United, or Citizens United v. FEC, is a 2010 case in which the Supreme Court struck down limits to independent political expenditures on First Amendment freedom of speech grounds
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2017 @ 1:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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These are trying times for conservatives.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 @ 8:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2016 @ 9:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman discuss current issues, yet again and again.
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2016 @ 10:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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