Residents of several cities in the United States require a salary much higher than $100,000 to feel as if they are earning six figures due to elevated costs of living and aggressive taxes, according to a recent analysis from SmartAsset.
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 @ 8:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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Three electric utility companies in California proposed a fixed-rate billing plan under which high-income households would pay more than low-income households.
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 9:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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My latest piece at the American Institute for Economic Research discusses the particularly harmful impact progressive income taxes have on productivity and the poor.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 8:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss argued in a Saturday opinion piece for an economic agenda centered upon tax cuts and deregulation.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 10:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Coming this fall
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 7:37 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:17 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This is a question implicit in every policy debate. However, it is rarely actually addressed.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 9:21 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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Neither Bernie Sanders nor the congressional nominee from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, show any evidence that they are actually socialists, despite describing themselves as such
Published: Saturday, September 8th, 2018 @ 3:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1886, Sir Edward Clarke delivered a speech in the U.K. House of Commons and in polite way of insulting someone, he said: "The mind was indeed so open that it had nothing in it at all."
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 10:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Ever since North Carolina enacted a major tax reform package in 2013, left-of-center politicians and pundits have lamented the disappearance of a progressive income tax
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political progressives aren't the only ones who see value in adding more "progressivity" to the state's personal income tax. A Republican-sponsored bill that won unanimous support last week in the N.C. Senate would accomplish that goal
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 7:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When I’m not reading public-policy tomes for work or escapist science fiction for play, any book you’ll find in my hands will probably be a work of history.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With April 15 behind us, North Carolina taxpayers can look forward to a new era, because 2013 will be the final year of the state’s “progressive” income tax.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 6:27 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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House Republicans Thursday unveiled their tax modification plan, a move that would eliminate the progressive income tax rate in favor of a flat tax.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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ne hundred years of affliction is a long time. The time has come for tax reform.... No, the time has come for a tax revolution.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:45 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Although the federal income tax system was designed and intended to make up for revenue losses due to tariff reform, it quickly became a primary means to fund the programs of our bloated federal government.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The event's featured speaker, however, was none other than Glenn Beck, who delivered a riveting speech outlining exactly what is at stake in the government's concerted scheme to shut down political opposition.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 3:42 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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A change in North Carolina's tax code is coming this year. The most likely outcome will be a reduction in the reliance on our state's income taxes and more of a reliance on an expanded sales tax.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There is one talking point that has become the go-to objection to eliminating North Carolina's state income taxes and replacing the revenue by expanding the sales tax: "This will shift the tax burden from the rich and onto the backs of the poor!"
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 6:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Famed economist Arthur Laffer provided real-world economic solutions at the Civitas Institute's legislative training session recently in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 3:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This article follows the one I previously wrote, entitled "Who is Really Disenfranchised?" In that article I talked about the incessant claims of "disenfranchisement" of minority voters when no such disenfranchisement exists nor any intent to do so.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2012 @ 8:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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QUESTION: Is it true that both California and Texas have such a right in the agreements they signed to join the Union?
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2011 @ 6:55 am
By: Diane Rufino
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It is acknowledged that the views and the writings philosopher John Locke played a crucial role in our Founders' view of liberty.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2011 @ 12:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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