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Criticism continues to mount over the North Carolina Senate’s decision to include $1.4 billion for NCInnovation in its proposed budget. Not only would it be a massive crony scheme using taxpayer dollars to reward select businesses by political appointees, the organization’s own justifications contin
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 @ 2:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina would face a new limit on state government spending growth under the Taxpayer Protection Act legislation filed Monday in the N.C. House.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2023 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2021 long session brought North Carolina a “First in Freedom” budget, with pro-growth tax cuts which will continue to reward taxpayers in 2023 and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 12:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An event billed as “a drag queen story hour” for children as young as two at the North Carolina Museum of Art and funded in part by taxpayer dollars, has reportedly been canceled amid community protest.
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2022 @ 2:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy Find that North Carolina's Dominant Hospital Systems Recorded Billions of Dollars in Profits After Taking Taxpayer-Funded COVID Relief
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Applications are open for North Carolina’s government broadband grants. Taxpayer advocates hope the money is spent in the right places.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 5:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On the heels of my colleague Jon Sanders highlighting that the cost to North Carolina taxpayers for each promised job from government handouts to corporations comes to $586,000 each, the N&O reports that two previous corporate welfare deals are being canceled because the promised jobs never came.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 11:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina State Treasury Controller Linda Combs was fighting for 1.7 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 8:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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2021 brought many tax changes to North Carolina with the passage of the state budget, and in the end, everyone will see a bit more in their wallets.
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 9:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the federal government — and leaders in North Carolina — look to plow millions of taxpayer dollars into broadband growth, a possible merger between two internet providers with strong footprints in the state could help facilitate high-speed infrastructure development.
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 8:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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One of the nation’s leading financial watchdogs says North Carolina has fared better than most states in terms of balancing its budget, but the picture isn’t all rosy as the state has an average debt burden of $1,400 per taxpayer.
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 8:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Conservative legislative leadership has held state spending growth in check over the last decade.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 9:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, North Carolina taxpayers will receive another bit of relief.
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2020 @ 1:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As many predicted, the California-based consulting firm WestEd is recommending that North Carolina spend billions of taxpayer dollars on preschools and district schools to meet the requirements of the Leandro case.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2019 @ 9:43 pm
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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North Carolina taxpayers could get a check from the state by late November.
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2019 @ 1:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina taxpayers are paying Merck, the $210 billion dollar pharmaceutical company that produces Viagra, among other drugs, some $12.5 million in tax incentives to build in Durham.
Published: Monday, July 29th, 2019 @ 6:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If it were a film, North Carolina’s subsidy program wouldn’t be a box office smash. A recent study from the Western Carolina University Center for the Study of Free Enterprise says the $400 million North Carolina taxpayers have invested in film subsidies has failed to pay dividends.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina appropriates less taxpayer money to state colleges and universities in real terms than it did before the onset of the Great Recession.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 4:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With each step of the budget process, the lines become clearer in the battle over the future of North Carolina for state employees, taxpayers, and citizens.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina needs to reform its approach to taxing capital gains. As I have noted in a previous analysis for the John Locke Foundation, the current system ignores the fundamental nature of capital gains taxes.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Voters will decide this fall whether North Carolina taxpayers should receive protection in the state constitution against the state taxing more than 7 percent of their personal income
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2018 @ 1:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The sun keeps shining on North Carolina's renewable energy investors - at taxpayers' expense
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2018 @ 2:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina taxpayers will foot the bill for a $3 billion transportation bond and won’t have a say in being saddled with the debt if House Bill 1010 passes
Published: Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past two weeks, government budget agencies have delivered two key reports to North Carolina taxpayers. One should infuriate them. The other should please them
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that North Carolina will join the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative, focused on investing taxpayer dollars wisely in programs and policies that are proven to work
Published: Monday, December 18th, 2017 @ 2:34 pm
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina legislators could save taxpayers another $455 million in the next budget year
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2017 @ 10:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate's budget plan would increase state spending at half the rate proposed by Gov. Roy Cooper and include a tax cut package projected to save taxpayers $1 billion over its first two years of implementation
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2017 @ 1:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you are a North Carolina taxpayer and you think something looks familiar about President Trump’s tax reform plan, you are right
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2017 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today’s N&O features this ridiculous editorial lambasting the NC General Assembly for being too financially responsible
Published: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 10:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A North Carolina municipal broadband network has made the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Dirty Dozen” — 12 high-profile taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2017 @ 5:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Divided government has its benefits. North Carolina voters and taxpayers are seeing some of those benefits on display now on Jones Street in Raleigh
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2017 @ 7:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After Attorney General Roy Cooper admitted he does not intend to uphold his sworn and legal obligation to defend North Carolina's common sense voter ID law in court, Governor McCrory called on Roy Cooper to forgo his salary and reimburse taxpayers for the cost of hiring outside counsel to do his job
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2016 @ 12:07 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) released the following statement in response to Roy Cooper's latest actions, which have proven his ultimate lack of responsibility as a prosecutor as well as his over zealous behavior with taxpayer money
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016 @ 2:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina Attorney General should reimburse taxpayers for not doing his job or resign, the McCrory campaign said Friday.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2016 @ 6:38 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Students who leave college with no degree but an accumulation of debt face obvious hardship, but what about taxpayer money wasted on students with no degrees
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2016 @ 5:08 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Making higher education more affordable while enhancing accountability to North Carolina taxpayers highlighted remarks UNC President-Elect Margaret Spellings gave to the university’s Board of Governors at a Feb. 12 retreat
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 3:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina taxpayers are the winners when public schools operate efficiently and when every public dollar is put to its best use and evaluated carefully.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 11:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The final batch of solar and other renewable energy projects requested under the "safe harbor" law enacted in April by the General Assembly could cost North Carolina taxpayers as much as $937,804,785 in credits, according to aggregated figures released Wednesday by the North Carolina Department...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Civitas Institute applauds Sen. Bob Rucho's tireless advocacy on behalf of North Carolina taxpayers. Rucho, who announced Thursday that the current term will be his last, spearheaded the fight for the most significant tax reform and relief in the state's history, passed in 2013...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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