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The progressive left often argues that the rich do not pay enough in taxes. The tax code is not progressive enough, they say. But, the tax code is much more progressive than they would like to admit. See the below graph from The Heritage Foundation.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 7:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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North Carolina progressive liberal groups and politicians have for years criticized the past decade of conservative tax cuts as being only “for big corporations and the rich.”
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 1:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The progressive left in North Carolina has for years attempted to paint a narrative that the conservative tax reforms over the last several years have starved state government of funding, and have left budgets “cut to the bone.”
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2020 @ 8:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Editors at the Washington Examiner highlight the potential impact for the middle class of proposals progressives are touting on the campaign trail.
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 10:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Democratic party’s most radically progressive candidates, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, have promised to impose a tax on wealth.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 6:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Progressives and conservatives argue about economic policy all the time. At government’s current size and scope, would it better promote long-term growth to raise taxes and spend more or to lower taxes and spend less?
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Is 'three times in a row a charm' in the tax raising business here in Beaufort County? Nonetheless, its government's majority believes that yet another tax raise in three consecutive years suits its citizens just fine; so charmed we must be.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 4:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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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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There are few aspects of the 2013 tax reform in North Carolina that have drawn more criticism from Democrats and progressives than elimination of the Earned Income Tax Credit
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2016 @ 12:44 pm
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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Progressive critics of North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reforms are quick to seize on topline unemployment rate figures in an attempt to discredit the rate cuts. But a closer look shows that in fact our state has enjoyed stellar job growth since taxes were cut.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Progressive protesters, including "Moral Monday" demonstrators, have for roughly the past year voiced their opposition to a supposed state "tax increase" passed last year. Specifically, they gripe that the landmark 2013 North Carolina tax reform - which lowered income tax rates on all income...
Published: Saturday, June 7th, 2014 @ 8:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Supposedly, our state is in the midst of a "conservative revolution." But the message we're getting out of our new administration in Raleigh is sounding a lot like something crafted by the NC Democrat Party's communications staff.
Published: Saturday, January 26th, 2013 @ 2:18 pm
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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Progressives make a point that conservatives ought to take to heart: taxes are far from the only factors that households and businesses take into consideration when deciding where to live, work, invest, shop, or create new businesses.
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2012 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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