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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) called on President Joe Biden to continue debt ceiling negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the federal government quickly approaches a default on obligations.
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 5:24 am
By: Daily Wire
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Yesterday a House Judiciary Committee held discussions about a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) amendment to restrain state budget growth.
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2023 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro contended that the recent debt ceiling agreement between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) occurs in the context of both Democrats and Republicans spending far beyond the nation’s means.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 12:37 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dismissed a letter from the House Freedom Caucus on Friday pressing him and other Republicans to “hold the line” on a debt ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden which includes spending reforms.
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 8:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told lawmakers on Tuesday that Republican leaders are “nowhere near” a deal with the White House on the debt ceiling, a revelation that comes less than two weeks before the nation is expected to default on obligations.
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House Freedom Caucus Adopts Hardline Position On Debt Ceiling, Insists On Meaningful Spending ReformMembers of the House Freedom Caucus took a hardline position on Thursday against an increase in the debt ceiling divorced from meaningful reforms to the federal budget.
Published: Sunday, June 4th, 2023 @ 11:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) each said on Tuesday that they made progress on debt ceiling negotiations, indicating thaws in an impasse as the nation faces a possible debt default in two weeks.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 1:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-PA) blasted White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after she said that lawmakers have “limited time” to raise the debt ceiling
Published: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 3:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced on Monday that lawmakers would soon vote to raise the debt ceiling for one year and seek to slow spending increases for federal agencies.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 8:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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The White House intends to cut the federal budget deficit by a total of $3 trillion over the next decade, a reduction that falls short of the $20 trillion in cuts required to balance the budget.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 12:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina would face a new limit on state government spending growth under the Taxpayer Protection Act legislation filed Monday in the N.C. House.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2023 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Government Spending is the True Tax
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s decade of economic success deserves celebration. Even more so, however, it is worth applauding the important steps toward reform that state lawmakers have undertaken over the past decade.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2023 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With state revenue for the current fiscal year now projected to be $4.2 billion higher than originally predicted, state budget writers are sitting on a sizeable stack of funds.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2021 session of the General Assembly began in January, as the world was entering its second year of the pandemic. The hope was the COVID fog would lift, allowing a return to normalcy, at least in a relative sense, and that lawmakers could go about business as usual.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Conservative legislative leadership has held state spending growth in check over the last decade.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 9:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Overall spending growth will be below GOP's self-imposed spending limitation of population plus inflation increases
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 8:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina is among the top five states in the nation on metrics such as tax rates, size of state government, and income transfer programs, according to a new report from the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Published: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 @ 10:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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55% of N.C. voters think the nation is headed in the wrong direction, while 39% think we are on the right path.
Published: Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 @ 12:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s hard to get away from an object that’s sticky.
Published: Thursday, May 6th, 2021 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As Tears for Fears sang in the 1980s, everybody wants their taxes lower.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Thanks to a decade of wise, conservative fiscal policy, North Carolina state government is better positioned financially to weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus shutdown.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2020 @ 10:53 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina’s economic and fiscal health is riding a decade of success.
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2020 @ 9:35 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Record visitor spending in 2018 was reflected with visitor spending increases in all 100 counties, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2019 @ 9:21 am
By: Governor's Office
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There will be parades, speeches, picnics, and gatherings across North Carolina this month to celebrate freedom. The General Assembly will be wrapping up its work, at least for the meantime, this month.
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2019 @ 1:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With each step of the budget process, the lines become clearer in the battle over the future of North Carolina for state employees, taxpayers, and citizens.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislative leaders have reached agreement on a 2019-20 General Fund budget cap of slightly more than $24 billion, shaving about $500 million from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed spending plan
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 9:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Want yet more one signal that American politics has changed markedly in the past decade? Look no further than the annual report card issued by the Cato Institute to grade the fiscal performance of the nation's state governors
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 7:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released a spending report showing that the rate of health care spending growth slowed for the second straight year
Published: Thursday, December 13th, 2018 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The authority of the states to regulate their own insurance markets was severely curtailed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2018 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do political movements ever really accomplish anything? The English writer G.K. Chesterton had his doubts
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2018 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's economy is in reasonably good shape. Over the past five years of available data, our state's employers have added 480,000 net new jobs, with our job-creation rate exceeding the national and Southeastern averages
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 3:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The University of Chicago is known for its imaginative admission application essay questions, questions such as “So where is Waldo, really?” or “Find x” or one year “How are apples and oranges supposed to be compared?”
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 6:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Would North Carolina be a better place without an income tax? A recent Bankrate.com article compared the nine states that forgo broad-based personal income taxes with the rest of the country on economy, population, and jobs
Published: Monday, August 20th, 2018 @ 12:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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