State Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) voted today in support of the final bipartisan state budget compromise with the House of Representatives and Governor Pat McCrory
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2016 @ 8:44 am
By: Bill Cook
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Almost exactly 15 years ago, I wrote an education reform plan for the John Locke Foundation entitled “Reach for the STARS."
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The move by the Federal Communications Commission to trump state laws placing restrictions on cities that want to provide broadband service has raised awareness of high-speed Internet service in society, the head of a national telecommunications association said Tuesday.
Published: Sunday, June 14th, 2015 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This kind of thing happens a lot at the local level. Your county commissioners will claim they are holding the line on the property tax rate.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 11:04 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation hasn't always been the largest funder of liberal activist organizations in North Carolina. But just as the Reynolds family moved away from the legacy of its founding patriarch, in time the foundation abandoned its roots in free-market innovation and success to...
Published: Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One North Carolina city borrowed millions from its water and sewer fund to support its municipal broadband service and paid the price with a downgraded bond rating.
Published: Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 @ 3:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Four years ago the State Statute required re-evaluation across NC. Our local tax office here in Beaufort County honestly told them the real estate bubble had burst and prices were going down rather than up.
Published: Sunday, April 20th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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By a 6-3 vote divided along racial lines, earlier this month the High Point City Council approved a resolution requesting the resignation of Mayor Bernita Sims due to reported personal financial problems.
Published: Monday, October 14th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tax reform moved a step closer to the finish line Tuesday as the Republican-led state Senate gave its tentative approval to its modified plan by a 32-15 margin. While it's not clear whether Republican Gov. Pat McCrory backs the proposal, the GOP leader in the House says his...
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 6:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the House and Senate work to fashion a compromise tax-reform bill, one of the sticking points is how much to cut North Carolina's corporate-income tax.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Does state tax policy affect state economic growth? Fiscal conservatives tend to say yes. Fiscal liberals tend to say no.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leaders used a Tuesday press conference to announce their long-awaited tax proposal, a proposal that would lower personal and corporate income tax...
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Our state has been suffering with high unemployment and sluggish economic growth since the 2008 financial crisis primarily because of an inadequate educational system, high taxes and poor investments by state government.
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 @ 1:41 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Our state has been suffering with high unemployment and sluggish economic growth since the 2008 financial crisis primarily because of an inadequate educational system, high taxes and poor investments by state government.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 3:45 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Now that state legislators have returned to work, one of their most important jobs is to approve a new state budget by July 1.
Published: Friday, February 1st, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback have all called for their states to eliminate their income tax and replace it with a sales tax over the past week.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 5:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina was once a growth champion of the national economy. Between 1981 and 1999, North Carolina's average personal income growth was the 4th fastest in the nation.
Published: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 @ 11:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina's state income tax penalizes people's income-generating activities by reducing the rewards to work, saving, investment, and entrepreneurship.
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 @ 1:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Compensation could soon be on its way to victims of North Carolina's involuntary sterilization program that was in operation in the state for decades.
Published: Friday, May 18th, 2012 @ 2:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Museum of Art will move to the new museum, under construction, in its front yard off Blue Ridge Road. Let us all pray that it will be a better design to display much better art.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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