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A new report from the Tax Foundation shows that tariffs have raised retail prices by approximately 4.9 percentage points.
Published: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 @ 3:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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wants to hellp welfare recipients and willing to gut taxpayers to do it
Published: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 12:32 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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The best way the county and city can help hold down inflation is to resist all tax increases
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 11:23 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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The current mayor and his slate of candidates WILL raise your property taxes.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 11:41 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Residents of the Village of Bald Head Island, a small community located off the coast of Brunswick County, are facing a substantial 21% tax hike as part of the recently approved budget by council.
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 3:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Joe Biden can call his economic policy whatever he wants — Bidenomics is the latest catchphrase — but a new poll shows the majority of the American people sum up the state of the economy in one or two words: “Struggling” and “Uncertain.”
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 @ 8:04 am
By: Daily Wire
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Funding for Wake Schools Would Be Up 38% Over 5 Years Ago, Despite Falling Attendance
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 @ 5:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While tax increases and utility rate hikes have been stopped, budget shenanigans continue.
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 9:32 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Tax Increases are coming to Washington behind your back.
Published: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 2:26 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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President Joe Biden unveiled record spending and several new tax increases on Thursday in his budget proposal for fiscal year 2024.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 5:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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Some individuals can expect a Medicare tax increase under the new budget proposal scheduled to be unveiled this week by the Biden administration.
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 @ 7:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Bill will require an estimate of interest payments and potential tax increase
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 10:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians may have noticed that it has cost a little more to fill their gas tanks since Jan. 1. Some areas of the Tar Heel State have seen prices jump 20 cents a gallon compared to last month when prices were below $2.99 in most areas.
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 @ 7:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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President Joe Biden’s spending agenda climbed another hurdle and now appears to have enough votes to pass the Senate after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) agreed to the package Thursday.
Published: Friday, August 19th, 2022 @ 2:13 am
By: Daily Wire
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More taxes
Published: Monday, August 8th, 2022 @ 10:50 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Be prepared for more market shocks, tax increases, inflation and pain at the pump
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 9:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joint Committee on Taxation finds billions in taxes on working and middle class
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 10:28 am
By: John Steed
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their tax and spend "climate" bill will greatly increase tax audits
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2022 @ 7:57 am
By: John Steed
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Property taxes on homeowners will increase $418 on average after vote on new $861 million budget
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 @ 8:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mayor Donald Sadler's war on taxpayers
Published: Thursday, June 16th, 2022 @ 4:32 pm
By: John Steed
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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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Guilford County accused of illegal electioneering in favor of school bond referendum, sales tax hikeA candidate for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners has accused the county government of using public dollars to illegally promote the passage of a $1.7 billion school bond and quarter cent sales tax increase.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 10:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday to block an automatic tax increase on employers. Senate Bill 311 would maintain the state’s current tax for funding unemployment insurance.
Published: Sunday, November 28th, 2021 @ 8:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Bill raises taxes on people making as little as $50,000
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 12:32 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Democrats look to indirect taxes to try to fool voters
Published: Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 @ 6:52 am
By: John Steed
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The Biden regime is expected to propose the biggest tax increase in history within the next year or so, but we saw his very first tax increase as part of the "Covid stimulus" bill, and it falls on low income workers.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 12:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Charlotte’s Arts & Science Council went to the people of Mecklenburg County last fall to get a quarter-cent sales tax increase.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2020 @ 8:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina voters shouldn’t be asked to approve county sales tax increases on election days where turnout is considerably low, one expert says.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2020 @ 7:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $5 billion tax increase, his Republican rivals would be both furious and gleeful — furious about the potential economic consequences, that is, and gleeful about the political ones.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Residents of Roanoke Rapids could vote soon to raise their local sales tax by a full percentage point. Money raised from the 1-cent tax increase would help pay off debt linked to the infamous Randy Parton Theatre.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2019 @ 1:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We are all puzzled by events from time to time and sometimes we never really understand what is going on around us.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2019 @ 7:20 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Wake County Commissioners passed a 10.13% property tax increase Monday night- the second largest in the county's history, despite calls for more access to public comment and increased fiscal responsibility from the Wake County Republican Party.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2019 @ 11:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Wake County Republicans Call on Commissioners/Residents to Oppose County’s 10% Tax Increase
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 10:40 am
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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Voters must look beyond candidates' statements and official policy positions to find those who emulate Walter Mondale. This is especially true when considering Mondale's views about raising taxes
Published: Tuesday, July 10th, 2018 @ 10:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $23.9 billion state General Fund budget proposal reduces personal and corporate income taxes and increases education spending by nearly $700 million
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2018 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What is a tax increase? Sounds like a simple question. But when politics intrudes, simple becomes complicated - or even convoluted
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2018 @ 10:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The spending total in his proposal comes to $24.54 billion, $500 million more than the $23.9 billion spending target recently agreed upon by the legislature.
Published: Thursday, May 17th, 2018 @ 7:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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When it comes to debates over tax reform or tax cuts (rarely for tax increases), it is quite typical for questions of fairness and justice to be part of the conversation
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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