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North Carolinians are feeling the pinch of rising inflation, with skyrocketing rent prices putting a strain on their budgets.
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 6:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Nearly three-quarters of households profess to be taking financially conservative actions as recessionary pressures impact the American economy, according to a recent survey from Bankrate.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 7:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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More Americans say they are “suffering” economically in 2022 than in 2008, according to a new survey.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Inflation Reduction Act is poised to reduce after-tax incomes for Americans across every income bracket, according to a report released last week by the Tax Foundation.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 11:10 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) admitted on Tuesday that the Inflation Reduction Act would not “immediately” reduce inflation.
Published: Sunday, August 28th, 2022 @ 10:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden is poised to sign on Tuesday, will raise taxes on companies by a net $197 billion over the next decade.
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2022 @ 11:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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Inflation in big cities is crushing residents right now, but it’s even worse in rural America, a new study found.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 5:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The state House has voted to make North Carolina the 26th state to withdraw from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Editors at National Review Online explain why Democrats in Congress should drop one of their bad ideas.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 9:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision could cost N.C. state government millions of dollars.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 12:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you have forgotten who Horace Greeley was, don't feel badly. He probably does not know who you are either.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 3:23 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The unemployment rate among those with a high school education is 3.9 percent.
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2018 @ 9:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tax increases deprive citizens of the chance to meet increasingly important financial priorities in order to fund less important government programs
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 @ 8:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a report outlining the limitations of traditional wage measures and how they understate compensation growth among American workers.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 10:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tax Cuts are leading to a strong economy for years to come
Published: Saturday, July 28th, 2018 @ 12:19 am
By: Scott Crosbie
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Started by legendary NC State basketball coach Everett Case, the event was sold out. Long after the game was over, as freshly showered players were leaving, a shady character sidled up to an NC State star. The Wolfpack player had been given money to throw the game so the other team would win
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2018 @ 2:25 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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This is our new American moment. There has never been a better time to start living the American Dream.
Published: Monday, April 9th, 2018 @ 12:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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If the beneficial effects of the Trump tax cut result in the North Carolina Utilities Commission deciding to lower electricity rates, that will be good news for electricity consumers
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 12:56 am
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 Carolinians would experience large gains in after-tax income under the tax-reform bill released last week in Washington, according to an initial analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2017 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Stark differences in conservative Republican and liberal Democratic fiscal priorities were clearly on display during a Senate Finance Committee meeting Wednesday at which a $1 billion tax cut package was approved by voice vote
Published: Tuesday, April 4th, 2017 @ 4:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's economy continues to expand at a relatively rapid pace
Published: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 @ 10:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Electricity is a basic human need. I think people already knew that on an abstract level, but widespread and long-term power outages after Hurricane Matthew made it more personal
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Donald Trump's America working families get tax relief, millions of new jobs created, wages go up, small businesses thrive, and the American dream is achievable.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 @ 6:42 pm
By: Russell Allen
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Economics & Environment Update: Time to get serious about capital gains, the next step in tax reformLast week I discussed and endorsed the idea that, instead of trying to create a consumption tax by abolishing the income tax and reforming the sales tax, North Carolina should instead use the existing apparatus of the income tax to accomplish that same goal.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Regardless of one's opinion on HB 2, it cannot overshadow or remotely counteract what North Carolina has done legislatively over the last five years to become one of the most attractive places in the country to do business, invest, live, raise a family, and retire. Since Republicans took control...
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 @ 11:59 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In 2013, Governor Pat McCrory and the General Assembly instituted historic tax reform by reducing the personal income tax for all North Carolinians, reducing the corporate tax rate, and eliminating the death tax
Published: Monday, April 18th, 2016 @ 11:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During his March 11 campaign stop in Raleigh, Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., warned of planetary devastation from climate change unless the world shifts from fossil fuel-based energy to renewable forms of power
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 10:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Building on transformational reforms begun in 2011, North Carolina's elected leaders continued changes in 2015 to curtail spending, instill fiscal responsibility, rein in regulations, improve education, make government open and accountable, and create the best possible conditions for economic growth
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 5:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The economy was not what it used to be. I had done well with insurance. I represented Ministers Life Insurance Company and traveled the eastern end of NC.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 5:07 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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