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"No tax on inflation"
Published: Saturday, August 29th, 2026 @ 6:31 pm
By: John Steed
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False teacher and second-term Councilmember Antwan Horton led another coalition with Pretend Republican Max Perreault (MR. 23% TAX MAN*) against the Nuclear Family Month proclamation, letting the motion fail.
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 @ 10:45 pm
By: Joe Davis
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it is time to get Traitor Tillis OUT of the Senate
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 5:23 pm
By: John Steed
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extreme tax increases, and abominable unrealized capital gains tax
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2024 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Steed
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other NC swamp Republicans support swamp big spending bill
Published: Friday, March 22nd, 2024 @ 1:34 pm
By: John Steed
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U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika dismissed two misdemeanor tax charges against Hunter Biden on Thursday evening. However, the move came after newly appointed Special Counsel David Weiss asked Noreika to dismiss those charges
Published: Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 @ 9:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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85% negative coverage on Republican congress
Published: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 9:27 am
By: John Steed
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Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Robert Redfield said Wednesday that American tax dollars funded gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that created COVID.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 3:02 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Hold onto your wallets, the Attorney General has failed the patients and taxpayers of North Carolina yet again. There is widespread evidence that mergers make hospital care less affordable and less safe.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 11:29 am
By: ENC NOW
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The Job Creators Network Foundation’s Legal Action Fund filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Monday for its policy to cancel $10,000 in student debt for millions of borrowers.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 12:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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The issue of spending many millions of taxpayer dollars to build a new Beaufort County jail is again raising its head.
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 11:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk slammed Democrats in a tweet on Monday over a proposal they are considering that would tax unrealized capital gains.
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2022 @ 3:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: Democrats Considering To ‘Impose A Tax On Unrealized Capital Gains’Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that Senate Democrats are considering a proposal to impose a tax on unrealized capital gains of the wealthiest Americans.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 7:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Houston Rockets and several other businesses, warned during an interview this week that if Democrats pass a tax on unrealized capital gains that it would destroy capitalism in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 2:22 pm
By: Daily Wire
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It’s budget season for North Carolina’s local governments, and some officials are taking the opportunity to propose tax increases yet again.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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New analysis from the Tax Foundation finds that – surprise! – high-tax states lost population while low-tax states gained residents.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Taxpayers could pay an extra $1.32 billion if public employees win the ability to collectively bargain, says a report by the John Locke Foundation.
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 1:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A California court authorized our taxpayer lawsuit to move forward against a California law that mandates gender quotas for corporate boards.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2020 @ 12:04 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Cunningham Raised Taxes During The 2001 Recession, Wants To Do It Again
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2020 @ 4:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Judicial Watch announced today that a California court authorized a taxpayer lawsuit to move forward against a California law that mandates gender quotas for corporate boards.
Published: Friday, July 10th, 2020 @ 10:25 am
By: Judicial Watch
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Domestic-based companies are furious.
Published: Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 @ 10:49 am
By: LifeZette
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Bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) to expand the refundable research and development (R&D) tax credit for startups and small businesses has gained support among entrepreneurship and innovation leaders.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 1:33 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Those writing checks to the Beaufort County Government got the same disrespectful handling this year we got last year.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:41 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Joan Perry was our speaker last week at the conservative club meeting. She landed on all the Conservative principles. She is against abortion, for limited terms, for lower taxes, for closing the border, against medicaid expansion etc, she is a hunter and supports gun right just to name a few.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @ 8:38 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The House proposed budget lowers some taxes, creates others, and cuts against the grain of past Republican efforts to prioritize savings reserves as a rainy day buttress to economic downturns and natural disasters.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 9:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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During the February Beaufort County Commissioners meeting the County manager, Brian Alligood, took issue with those of us who think continuation budgets are bad things, maybe even evil.
Published: Thursday, March 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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North Carolina needs to reform its approach to taxing capital gains. As I have noted in a previous analysis for the John Locke Foundation, the current system ignores the fundamental nature of capital gains taxes.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few people seem to be noticing but property taxes for Wake County homeowners may be going up yet again
Published: Sunday, August 19th, 2018 @ 10:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Voters will decide this fall whether North Carolina taxpayers should receive protection in the state constitution against the state taxing more than 7 percent of their personal income
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2018 @ 1:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On many different occasions, I have argued that, from an economics perspective, North Carolina should abolish its tax on capital gains
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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any discussion of public policy, I think it is impossible to talk intelligently about questions like "good enough" or "fair enough" without asking first "by what standard?"
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2018 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A couple of weeks ago, I argued that North Carolina’s legislature should “one-up” Congress and the Trump administration when it comes to tax reform by abolishing the state’s capital gains tax.
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 4:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent tax reform passed by Republicans in Congress and enthusiastically signed by President Trump, went a long way toward fixing what had become a federal tax system that was discouraging work effort, investment, and entrepreneurship
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2018 @ 10:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The tax reform legislation approved by Congress and signed by President Trump Wednesday makes sweeping reforms to the national tax landscape, but an influential Washington-based think tank says the new law should have minimal impact on North Carolina's tax structure
Published: Sunday, January 7th, 2018 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina policymakers should boost entrepreneurship and economic growth by focusing their next round of tax reform on capital gains
Published: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Politicians are usually eager to be generous with the money taken from taxpayers, especially when it helps them gain favor with some interest group
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina's tax code penalizes savings and investment by double taxing their returns - specifically interest, dividends, and capital gains. These biases can only be eliminated by removing savings and investment from the tax base, or by eliminating the returns to saving; for example...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate has approved a Taxpayer Protection Act by the required three-fifths vote. The measure approves amending the North Carolina Constitution to place caps on income-tax rates and spending growth while requiring lawmakers to set aside money in a rainy-day fund to guard against...
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 3:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians are forced to pay twice to prop up the state's renewable energy lobby: once in the form of higher taxes and again for higher electric bills to support a Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (REPS).
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2015 @ 6:15 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Because of tough decisions made by the General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory, North Carolina's payroll tax is expected to drop by about $280 million in 2016 and as much as $550 million by 2017. What you think about this sequence of events says a lot about your political philosophy and your...
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 11:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz recently continued their tour throughout North Carolina to highlight the successful efforts to revitalize urban downtowns, main streets and rural communities through the historic tax credit program. As the tour continues across...
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 @ 9:15 pm
By: Chris Downey
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