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It’s budget season in the Tar Heel State. We have high hopes that this biennium budget can allow for substantial benefits to North Carolinians.
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The states with the most severe business taxes in the new year are primarily located in the Northeast, while those with environments most welcoming to companies and entrepreneurs are generally in the Great Plains and the South.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 7:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina would jump from No. 10 to No. 5 in the Tax Foundation’s state business tax climate rankings, if recently approved reforms took effect immediately.
Published: Sunday, December 19th, 2021 @ 5:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With Democrats in charge of the White House, and U.S. House, and (possibly as of this writing) the U.S. Senate, you can expect a push by left-wing activists and politicians to repeal some federal tax cuts enacted by the previously Republican Congress and signed by President Trump.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 2:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The post of lieutenant governor is a constitutional office in North Carolina, and the only one empowered to exercise both legislative and executive powers.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 @ 8:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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The best word to describe the year 2016 is unsettling. We barely had time to break our New Year's resolutions before the year crashed down on us
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2017 @ 6:31 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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As the General Assembly continues to work through the 2016-17 budget, part of the final package should build on the tax reforms first implemented in 2011
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2016 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has been voted the #3 best state for business for the second year in a row, according to an annual survey of CEOs conducted by Chief Executive Magazine released today
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 @ 2:11 am
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina lawmakers should take aim at the state's current system of depreciation, as they look for more ways to improve the tax code
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 3:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A few days ago an investigative reporter did a look back on the history of businessman, Donald Trump
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 2:17 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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We have comedians and pundants speaking to the things which trouble me about Conservatives.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 3:38 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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If you want to understand the debate about how best to promote growth within a capitalist society, start with the root word: capital.
Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 @ 10:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I don't exercise my editorial muscles as much as I used to, and even when editing was a major element of my daily routine, I was never as tough on my writers as I probably should have been.
Published: Tuesday, January 20th, 2015 @ 9:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory and others are advocating the restoration of the historic preservation tax credit.
Published: Saturday, December 27th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: Tom Campbell
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My family name is of British ancestry. It comes out of Scarborough, England, which is north of London on the same coast.
Published: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 3:18 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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North Carolina legislators have been to school in the complications and frustrations resulting from tax policy changes.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 1:07 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Our lawmakers have been embroiled in contentious debates about teacher pay and Medicaid, among other issues, as they struggle to revise our $21 billion state budget.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 7:31 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Last month, the U.S. Senate held a committee hearing on offshore tax evasion and published a report stating that foreign tax havens have cost the United States $150 billion a year in lost revenue. The report didn't include any information about the states' tax losses, yet states have the ability...
Published: Monday, March 17th, 2014 @ 7:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Open up your wallets, folks. It's official. The North Carolina Department of Revenue will start getting a cut of your purchases from Amazon.com starting February 1.
Published: Monday, January 20th, 2014 @ 11:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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There is no small irony that Republicans want to investigate left-leaning groups, because for years it was the other way around.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: Tom Campbell
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You're probably heard critics of Barack Obama warn that his goal is to make America more European. Each critic probably means something different by that. I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories about the president's motives. When I say that Obama is making America more like Europe, I have a...
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pundits, partisans and politicos have offered their views on the tax plan passed this week, ranging from praise to please.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 10:34 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Before the January start of this legislative session leaders of both houses proclaimed major overhaul of North Carolina’s tax codes to be among their highest priorities.
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 10:54 am
By: Tom Campbell
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For months, North Carolina's political establishment has been lying in wait for the state's new Republican leaders to act on their long-promised initiative...
Published: Friday, May 10th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers agree they want to lower personal and corporate income tax rates while expanding the tax base to include a wider range of sales and service taxes, but the devil is in tax reform details.
Published: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 @ 11:42 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In my latest column for Business North Carolina magazine, I argue that policymakers who seek to make North Carolina's economy more competitive can't afford to ignore the seemingly unrelated issue of family stability.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2013 @ 5:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last November North Carolina voted for change. We are certainly getting it. At the current pace and expectations state government will undergo the biggest changes most of us have seen.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 8:14 am
By: Tom Campbell
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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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Gov. Pat McCrory's budget director distanced the Republican chief executive from a proposal to eliminate income taxes in North Carolina and expressed his own "great concerns" with the concept being floated by leading GOP lawmakers.
Published: Friday, January 25th, 2013 @ 3:22 am
By: Brant Clifton
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With respect to our legislators the current talk of a tax reform plan makes about as much sense as hopping in a car and striking out to California without a GPS or road map.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The drumbeat for tax reform in 2013 is growing louder with each passing day, but ask those beating the drums what they mean by reform and you get very different answers.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Mark Twain said it is better to have people think you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Wary of that likelihood I nevertheless make my predictions for 2013.
Published: Friday, January 4th, 2013 @ 5:17 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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As North Carolina lawmakers, lobbyists, and activists prepare for the Great Tax Reform Debate of 2013, there are a few things everyone ought to keep in mind.
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2012 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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