President Donald J. Trump is continuing to safeguard America’s borders from uncontrolled migration, dangerous criminals, and lethal drugs.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 @ 3:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In October, the Trump administration handed out $100,000 of taxpayer dollars to the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Middle East Forum has found.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2020 @ 8:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, North Carolina taxpayers will receive another bit of relief.
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2020 @ 1:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Taxpayers have been paying a hefty price for jets that don't work, notes this op-ed — let's fix the problem asap, says the author
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 @ 8:46 am
By: LifeZette
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Have you ever heard someone say "Should Government be doing this?"
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 7:21 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Senate Bill 537 creates a $20 million loan program, which will funnel taxpayer dollars to distressed rural hospitals.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 6:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The forgotten American is the blue-collar taxpayer who attends church on Sundays. He toils diligently so that he can put bread on the table for his family and children, but he lives paycheck-to-paycheck on a tight budget.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 2:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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It may sound too good to be true, but you soon may be getting a check in the mail from the state for up to $250.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2019 @ 9:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina taxpayers could get a check from the state by late November.
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2019 @ 1:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Commissioner Jerry Langley formally initiated the conversation among the Beaufort County Commissioners that a new jail or "Public Safety Complex" (vernacular for Progressives) should be considered and built.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 3:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If it were a film, North Carolina’s subsidy program wouldn’t be a box office smash. A recent study from the Western Carolina University Center for the Study of Free Enterprise says the $400 million North Carolina taxpayers have invested in film subsidies has failed to pay dividends.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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H.R. 3151, the “Taxpayer First Act,” which makes changes to the management and oversight of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); modernizes the IRS to help combat tax fraud and update information technology systems; and makes other changes to the Internal Revenue Code
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 10:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina appropriates less taxpayer money to state colleges and universities in real terms than it did before the onset of the Great Recession.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 4:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wake County Republican Party called on the Wake County Commission today to give taxpayers more opportunities to speak out about the proposed 10 percent property tax hike.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 12:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's time to give American families quality, reliable, affordable healthcare - and that's what we are working very hard to do.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 3:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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America is a welcoming country. And under my leadership, it's a welcoming country. We lead the world in humanitarian protection and assistance, by far.
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2018 @ 5:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Our moral duty to the taxpayer requires us to make our government leaner and more accountable.
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 12:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Almost as shocking as the allegations of sexual and racial misconduct about Carolina Panthers’ owner Jerry Richardson published Friday was the news Sunday night that the founding owner of the NFL franchise would sell it at season’s end
Published: Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pennsylvania legislators this week approved reforms to their pension program for state retirees, a move that is expected to save taxpayers billions.
Published: Saturday, June 10th, 2017 @ 9:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today’s N&O features this ridiculous editorial lambasting the NC General Assembly for being too financially responsible
Published: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 10:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A North Carolina municipal broadband network has made the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Dirty Dozen” — 12 high-profile taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2017 @ 5:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rocky Mount city officials on Dec. 12 moved ahead with plans to build a community center that could cost taxpayers more than $50 million despite the area’s slumping population and declining property values
Published: Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 @ 2:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Taxpayer advocates, public policy analysts, and Republican Party officials Tuesday slammed a Wake County sales tax referendum and characterized a proposed transit plan as a giant boondoggle
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 @ 12:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina taxpayers are the winners when public schools operate efficiently and when every public dollar is put to its best use and evaluated carefully.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 11:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The "good" news is that, in this year's Super Bowl battle over which team fleeces its home city's taxpayers the least, Broncos or the Panthers, the winner is the Panthers by a pretty wide margin. According to this article by the Manhattan Institute's Jared Meyer (originally published in Forbes)...
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 @ 2:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's been news in Henderson County this week about an announcement from GF Linamar that they'll build a state-of-the-art aluminum die casting plant in Mills River. And it does indeed sound pretty great. They're promising 350 new jobs, which is a lot anywhere, and particularly in a town with a...
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 @ 6:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Here's a statement that North Carolinians of all political stripes can agree is a fact: Gov. Pat McCrory and the state legislature have enacted the largest tax cut in the history of North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 3:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congress can save a lot of time with this bit of foolishness.
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 3:06 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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It's unlikely Congress will take major steps in the next year to reform the federal tax code or the Affordable Care Act. That's the assessment from a leader of the National Taxpayers Union.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Civitas Institute applauds Sen. Bob Rucho's tireless advocacy on behalf of North Carolina taxpayers. Rucho, who announced Thursday that the current term will be his last, spearheaded the fight for the most significant tax reform and relief in the state's history, passed in 2013...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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