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Cooper offered no details, and it's not clear how he allocated various pieces of the tax package included in the 2017-19 budget plan
Published: Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 @ 4:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement on the passing of Representative Paul Luebke
Published: Monday, October 31st, 2016 @ 3:34 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reform drastically improved our state's tax climate, making the Tar Heel State far more competitive for job and investment growth. The Tax Foundation credited the tax changes for North Carolina's dramatic increase from the 7th worst business tax climate in the...
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 6:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Big government "progressives" love telling other people what to do (and spending other people's money). It's all about control, as a central tenant of progressivism is a strong central state controlling what should be free, voluntary associations between citizens.
Published: Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 @ 7:51 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Opponents of the state's preferential treatment of renewable energy sources said North Carolina ratepayers should be relieved by the passage of House Bill 760 by a 77-32 vote on Wednesday after numerous delays, repeated compromises, and contentious debate.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 1:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yes, the Republican-led General Assembly has voted for and Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law an effective increase in North Carolina's gasoline tax. Let's not pretend otherwise.
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2015 @ 12:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A House education committee on Tuesday gave its OK to House Bill 133, a measure increasing the scholarship amount available to special needs students who attend private schools from $3,000 per semester to $4,000. It also approved a change allowing families receiving those scholarships to collect...
Published: Saturday, March 28th, 2015 @ 3:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last year's state tax reform lowered income tax rates for all working North Carolinians.
Published: Wednesday, July 16th, 2014 @ 11:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The state House pushed ahead Tuesday with House Bill 1050, limiting the amount of money North Carolina cities and towns could charge businesses for privilege licenses. The bill, which would cap municipal privilege licenses at $100 per year, is part of a catch-all tax package designed to tweak...
Published: Tuesday, May 27th, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some of the House Democrats' most vocal advocates for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina have filed House Bill 1083, committing the state to add more of its poorest residents to the government health insurance program.
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 9:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The power of incumbency, gerrymandered election districts, and a growing national distaste for politics in general might be the causes of having voter ballots for the May 6 primary election showing more blanks than the responses to a pop quiz.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Civitas Partisan Index has been updated to show the political balance of power in North Carolina as revealed in the 2012 elections.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2014 @ 9:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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"Ha! That's it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble." If you remember those words, then you're likely chuckling at the mental image of Daffy Duck's epiphany. In trying to foil his nemesis, Bugs Bunny, in the famous cartoon "Rabbit Seasoning", the hapless duck ends up at the end of a hunter's...
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 @ 6:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Amid pushback from charter schools and concerns about violations of constitutional separation of powers, a Senate bill creating an independent public...
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tax reform legislation working its way through the General Assembly could affect a Taxpayer Bill of Rights measure originally intended to return...
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After reading House Bill 976, the Gun Safety Act, it becomes hard to believe that Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein and Andrew Cuomo are nowhere to be found roaming the halls of the North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 11:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The state House has approved a bill that would remove a vestige of Jim Crow days from the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 6:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As you know by now, our number one North Carolina energy/economics/environmental bill of the year is H298.
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 @ 11:03 am
By: John Droz, Jr.
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Following two hours of debate, the House gave initial approval to a bill aimed at speeding up the retirement of the state's $2.5 billion debt owed to the federal government for unemployment benefits.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 2:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The effort to reshape the state's unemployment insurance program took one step forward on Thursday when the House Finance Committee gave the bill a thumbs up.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 8:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Members of the General Assembly have recently proposed a tax hike that would affect many people and businesses. And this tax increase comes at a time when North Carolina is 47th in the nation in unemployment, at a rate of 9.4 percent.
Published: Saturday, June 16th, 2012 @ 9:44 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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