North Carolina’s election reform bill, Senate Bill 747, would require the state and county boards of elections to provide more information on elections and increase the frequency of list maintenance
Published: Friday, November 17th, 2023 @ 11:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With dozens of veterans looking on in the House Gallery, the North Carolina House of Representatives voted 100-5 on Wednesday to approve bipartisan legislation to eliminate the state income tax on military retirement pay.
Published: Thursday, June 24th, 2021 @ 12:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. House passed a bill by a vote of 100-5 on Wednesday to exempt military retirement pay from state income taxes.
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 @ 8:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the House Finance Committee gave a favorable report to bipartisan legislation (House Bill 83) that will eliminate the state income tax on military retirement pay.
Published: Sunday, April 4th, 2021 @ 11:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Representatives John Szoka (R-Cumberland), John Bell (R-Wayne), John Bradford (R-Mecklenburg) and Diane Wheatley (R-Cumberland) filed House Bill
Published: Wednesday, February 17th, 2021 @ 10:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senate Republicans are again pushing State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s request to limit risk in the underfunded state pension plan by narrowing the number of retirement options.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 @ 1:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says the state pension plan hemorrhaged $4.1 billion in 2018
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 @ 3:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says a revised Senate Bill 117 would eliminate some costly benefit options and impose forfeiture of retirement benefits for some criminal offenses
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 2:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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United States Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently announced they were successful in urging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to reconsider a decision that would have caused lower-income military retirees to lose federal retirement benefits
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 @ 4:05 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner, John Koskinen, to urge the IRS to reconsider a recent decision that will cause lower-income military retirees to lose federal benefits
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2017 @ 1:56 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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A withering state audit uncovered a pattern of abuses by a division director at the Department of Health and Human Services, unearthing $1.6 million in excessive salaries and wages, rampant nepotism, failure to follow state policies, and continuing lax oversight at the agency.
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Misallocated mileage reimbursement funds found in two separate investigations of state agencies expose the difficulty of supervising work-at-home state employees and might be only part of a larger problem, State Auditor Beth Wood said.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 4:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Headlines across the nation have been sounding the alarm about state government pensions. Even very conservative estimates place the total amount of unfunded state pension liabilities to be approaching a trillion dollars nationally.
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 @ 4:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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