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When it comes to giving out business incentives, you won’t find North Carolina at the top of the list.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 8:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Conservative North Carolinians believe that lower taxes translate into higher levels of economic growth and personal freedom.
Published: Saturday, January 11th, 2020 @ 2:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Roy Cooper once again is displaying his blatant hypocrisy on corporate taxes.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 12:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the $23.9 billion General Fund budget for 2018-19, warning Republicans that voters in November’s general election will reject GOP candidates and their policies
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Ford Porter, spokesman for Governor Roy Cooper, shared the following comment after the legislature voted to override the Governor's veto and pass a special interest budget that prohibited public input and amendment from other representatives
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2018 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Does the money you earn from your labor belong to you? This question is important and draws a distinction between economic conservatives and progressives
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 4:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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This morning, Triad Business Journal ran a piece with the title, “N.C. governor ‘open to options’ to keep NFL in Charlotte.” Of course, we all know what that means: state money, tax breaks, incentive payments, corporate welfare
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 6:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A runner could make major improvements in his 5K time by starting his race at the 1,000-meter mark
Published: Sunday, July 23rd, 2017 @ 7:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a stark contrast: A person earning $1 million a year gets a tax break of $8,226
Published: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017 @ 4:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Cooper offered no details, and it's not clear how he allocated various pieces of the tax package included in the 2017-19 budget plan
Published: Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 @ 4:49 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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If you want to find out the real purpose of something, follow the money.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 7:31 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Earlier this month, the NC House introduced the "NC Competes Act," a bill that would expand the state's Job Development Investment Grant program (JDIG), and extend targeted tax breaks for datacenters and a major passenger airline. Yesterday, the Senate introduced two bills designed as an...
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 12:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If North Carolina's tax burden has no effect on business decisions and the performance of the economy, as left-of-center politicians and editorialists have repeatedly insisted, then why are they so enamored with targeted tax breaks?
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that Gov. Pat McCrory has released his budget proposal for the 2015-17 biennium, there are at least two fiscal issues dividing North Carolina Republicans this year.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 4:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems the folks on Jones Street have kicked off one heck of an orgy - apparently in honor of the box office success of '50 Shades of Grey.'
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 2:03 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Politicians love to use their power to dole out favors and privileges to politically-connected special interests. They also love to interfere with the economy, attempting to impose their preferences upon investors and consumers through a hodgepodge of taxpayer handouts and targeted tax breaks.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 5:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Legislators are spinning us that a lot of road work needs to be done statewide, but there just isn't enough money out there to do it.
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 2:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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As the legislature comes back into session, there is a renewed focus on what are typically referred to as economic incentives, or by many who are more skeptical of such programs, corporate welfare or simply cronyism. Programs that are and will continue to be debated are subsidies to...
Published: Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 @ 9:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory and some Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly say they need more “tools” for economic development in North Carolina — by which they mean targeted tax breaks and corporate subsidies.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 9:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again," wrote the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. "There is nothing new under the sun." More than two millennia later, Karl Marx, wrote that history repeated itself "the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 10:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Did Gov. Pat McCrory and the North Carolina legislature raise taxes on poor and middle-income families to give tax breaks to the wealthy?
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 4:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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