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Expressing happiness was also associated with conservatism.
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 @ 11:19 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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Governor Cooper released his recommended budget for the biennium today. The General Assembly has already begun budget writing, and the Governor’s recommendations, in this case, are purely political.
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 11:07 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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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us most here in North Carolina, and is distilled for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 5:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Families at the lower end of the income scale could end up among the biggest winners if lawmakers adopt the N.C. Senate’s latest tax package.
Published: Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 @ 7:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With Democrats in charge of the White House, and U.S. House, and (possibly as of this writing) the U.S. Senate, you can expect a push by left-wing activists and politicians to repeal some federal tax cuts enacted by the previously Republican Congress and signed by President Trump.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 2:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers."
Published: Thursday, May 11th, 2017 @ 10:46 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: Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 @ 10:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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True, longtime Raleigh News & Observer political columnist Rob Christensen might have written his latest piece before reading last week’s Carolina Journal Daily Journal on recent progressive changes to North Carolina’s personal income tax
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2017 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government requires money to do its work. Anarchists disagree. But for the vast majority of us, the real debates involve, first, how much money government needs and, second, how government ought to collect that money
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 11:53 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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Republican state senators want to make North Carolina's income tax system more progressive.
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
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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North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reform is once again under attack, and once again the critics are using misleading claims and false narratives to deceive the public.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Pop quiz: what do you do when you are a politician who finds himself incapable of debating the merits of an opposing viewpoint?
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 5:25 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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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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As you may know, the John Locke Foundation has just published a new book - First in Freedom: Transforming Ideas into Consequences for North Carolina - that proposes a new tax system for our state.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 5:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory's budget director distanced the Republican chief executive from a proposal to eliminate income taxes in North Carolina and expressed his own "great concerns" with the concept being floated by leading GOP lawmakers.
Published: Friday, January 25th, 2013 @ 3:22 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Politicians in Raleigh and DC, aided and abetted by our oft-clueless media, are railing about how the only way to fix our economic mess is to get the 'guv-mint' MO' revenue.
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 11:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina could promote economic growth and wealth creation by replacing its existing personal income tax with a flat-rate consumed income tax.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 1:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It happened again a few days ago, but by now I'm used to progressives accusing me of being an ideologue whose intransigence is responsible for gridlock in our national, state, and local policymaking, and for preventing society's transformation.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2012 @ 9:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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