Lawsuits. Veto threats. Power grabs. Protests. My rights, his rights. No one's right. What a way to end 2016
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 4:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Top legislative budget and tax writers say the N.C. General Assembly isn't likely to tackle more extensive tax reform next year. Nor are major spending changes in the works
Published: Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 @ 1:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal government has just released another set of economic statistics - and they again show North Carolina has one of the fastest-growing economies in the United States
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2016 @ 12:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That's what recent tax reforms have delivered to North Carolina, according to a new academic study released today by the Civitas Institute
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 4:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina almost made another top-10 list this year - but don't worry, our state seems likely to make the cut in 2017
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 @ 9:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While voters in a number of North Carolina localities will have alcohol, tax increase, and bond referendums on their minds, citizens in the Forsyth County village of Tobaccoville will be deciding whether to recall their mayor
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2016 @ 9:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Democrats running for statewide offices this year are trying to convince voters that Republicans favor higher taxes on "working people" while they, the Democrats, favor lower taxes on "working people."
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 @ 10:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The mainstream media and pundits on both sides of the aisle focus an extraordinary amount of time and energy examining public school funding
Published: Saturday, August 6th, 2016 @ 3:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Should the government keep taxes higher in order to finance schools, roads, and other public services, even if the higher taxes discourage some private investment and entrepreneurship
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An effort to cap the state income tax rate was removed quietly from the Senate's calendar on Wednesday, one day after that body's Finance Committee gave the proposed change to the N.C. Constitution a thumbs up
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2016 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government requires money to do its work. Anarchists disagree. But for the vast majority of us, the real debates involve, first, how much money government needs and, second, how government ought to collect that money
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Like a recovering addict on the verge of a major binge, some North Carolina lawmakers are on the brink of falling back into the black hole of tax credits
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has a hidden tax, and it's probably the most expensive one you've never heard of: It's called health insurance mandates
Published: Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Over the last few years, ever since the tax reform of 2013 took hold in North Carolina, there has been a steady push to expand the sales tax to services in an attempt to make it a more pure consumption tax.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has a serious problem. Adopting a default mens rea provision would go a long way to solving it.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2016 @ 7:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Relatively speaking, North Carolina has a low rate of property taxation. That's a basic fact of public finance - but its implications are varied, significant, and underappreciated
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2016 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am not advocating beheadings
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 7:49 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The federal government spends more money each year than it collects in taxes and other revenue. That means annual spending deficits. Each deficit drives up the federal debt. Nick Dranias, president and executive director of the Compact for America Educational Foundation, has an interesting idea for
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 7:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The price of sound tax policy is eternal vigilance, and a year after the N.C. General Assembly implemented a tax reform plan based on sound principles of taxation and economics, it is threatening to begin the process of unraveling these reforms with a new excise tax on e-cigarettes.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most of us enjoy going on a vacation or two during the year, and that usually involves spending the night in a hotel or rental accommodation. Did you know that you are taxed on that hotel room and have no say about it? This current form of taxation without representation is known as an occupancy tax
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 12:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've had my disagreements with Duke Energy, both historically and recently. But the company got a bum rap in a new story stumbling its way through media circles: that Duke Energy uses abusive tax loopholes to avoid paying its fair share of federal income taxes.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 1:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Sen. Jeff Tarte, R-Mecklenburg, believes Special Assessment District revenue bonds may be the fairest method of taxation for economic development infrastructure projects even if the financing instrument attracted only one successful applicant in the five years the bonds have been an option...
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When is a sales-tax increase not really a sales-tax increase? If you want to make sense of the contrasting claims about tax reform in North Carolina, this is one...
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 2:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"The power to tax is the power to destroy." That is an oft-repeated paraphrase of a quote from former U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall in an 1819 court decision. Indeed taxes do destroy: incentives, productivity, businesses, and opportunity.
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2012 @ 3:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina's corporate income tax violates basic principles of sound economic policy and open government.
Published: Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 @ 8:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Taxation is the taking of property and earnings in exchange for governmentally provided goods and services or for redistribution. Legislators may also structure taxes as a policy tool to manipulate constituent actions for or against particular goods or services.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 1:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lumberton officials are using an unprecedented taxation defense in an Internet sweepstakes lawsuit before the state Supreme Court that features constitutional separation of powers issues and arcane legal protections dating from the Great Depression.
Published: Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 @ 11:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina could promote economic growth and wealth creation by replacing its existing personal income tax with a flat-rate consumed income tax.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 1:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It happened again a few days ago, but by now I'm used to progressives accusing me of being an ideologue whose intransigence is responsible for gridlock in our national, state, and local policymaking, and for preventing society's transformation.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2012 @ 9:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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