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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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The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges on Friday against a contractor with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who is accused of stealing the tax returns of former President Donald Trump and distributing the material to the media.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 2:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina House, Senate, and governor have each released their budget proposals for the upcoming biennium
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2023 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A government watchdog told Congress on Wednesday the Taliban may be stealing money from the billions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers meant to help the people of Afghanistan.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 7:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer took a shot at New York’s political leaders over the weekend for the state’s high taxes, saying that he wants the next team that he plays for to be in a state with a much friendlier tax code.
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 2:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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Political influence scheme alleged in the very agency dedicated to stopping political patronage
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 @ 11:14 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Boston Tea Party was a totally based political protest that took place on December 16, 1773 as a way of speaking out against taxation without representation — but let's face it — the tea got the raw end of that deal. We enjoy a good tea every now and then!
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2022 @ 7:26 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Instead, Honor Taxpayers and Emphasize Long-Term Sustainability
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Tears for Fears sang in the 1980s, everybody wants their taxes lower.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Joshua Lawson of the Federalist highlights an important lesson from a recent viral video.
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2020 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for president debate the merits of taxing the wealthiest Americans, maybe we should instead focus on getting rid of a program that effectively taxes the poorest among us.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 9:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina Republican Party spokesman Jeff Hauser released the following statement after Governor Cooper vetoed teacher pay raises and additional tax relief
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders today offered Republican leadership a state budget compromise proposal that would close the health care coverage gap, raise teacher pay, cut taxes for people and guarantee school construction while balancing the budget and saving money in the Rainy Day Fund
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 3:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
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On Tuesday, musician Miley Cyrus teamed up with Marc Jacobs to promote abortion and pump money into taxpayer-funded abortion mill Planned Parenthood with raunchy images of the 26-year-old and sweatshirt sales.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 @ 10:21 am
By: Daily Wire
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An angry teacher on Facebook wondered why those in charge of the State Health Plan “felt the need…to remind us that we are funded by taxpayers” on the new insurance ID cards
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 5:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the $23.9 billion General Fund budget for 2018-19, warning Republicans that voters in November’s general election will reject GOP candidates and their policies
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article is to remind folks of the loss of freedom we suffered at the hands of President Obama and his administration with the unconstitutional and universal healthcare scheme he misrepresented and then forced on the American people.
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2017 @ 10:43 am
By: Diane Rufino
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North Carolina's 2016-17 state budget responsibly limited the growth rate of state spending, wisely padded the state's Rainy Day Fund, cut taxes further and continued one of the most aggressive trends of teacher pay increases in the nation.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2016 @ 5:01 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor McCrory criticizes political correctness and defends privacy in a new campaign TV ad launched today, excoriating those pushing an extreme agenda on North Carolina and distracting from the important issues facing North Carolina families like raising teacher pay, creating jobs & cutting taxes
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2016 @ 7:26 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina's 2016-17 state budget responsibly limited the growth rate of state spending, wisely padded the state's Rainy Day Fund, cut taxes further and continued one of the most aggressive trends of teacher pay increases in the nation.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:27 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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After Roy Cooper's campaign indicated he would have vetoed the bipartisan budget bill signed by Governor McCrory to raise teacher pay and cut taxes for the middle-class, The Pat McCrory Committee slammed Roy Cooper for putting partisan politics above teachers, families and students
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2016 @ 3:45 am
By: McCrory Communications
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As the state budget agreement moves through the legislative approval process toward Gov. McCrory's desk, there is plenty of media coverage summarizing the major issues addressed in this year's spending plan, such as teacher pay, tax cuts and rainy day funds
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) voted today in support of the final bipartisan state budget compromise with the House of Representatives and Governor Pat McCrory
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2016 @ 8:44 am
By: Bill Cook
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Early Friday morning, the state Senate approved its version of the $22.2 billion General Fund budget, setting the stage for negotiations with the House on a spending plan that legislative leaders hope will be completed before the new fiscal year begins on July 1.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 7:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leaders on Tuesday began unveiling their $22.2 billion General Fund budget, including a nearly 20 percent pay boost for teachers over two years, a middle-class tax cut, and a tuition freeze for UNC system students
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2016 @ 3:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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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: Thursday, May 26th, 2016 @ 5:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Paying for college is not like paying for other goods and services. The eventual customers, college students, may not always feel the impact of rising college costs. Instead, parents and taxpayers often subsidize much of students' tuition.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 4:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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REMINDER: This Thursday's meeting on COMMON CORE, and the following Thursday, an evening with entertaining conservative talk show host, Rod Eccles!
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 9:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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As the House and Senate negotiate the details of a new state budget, one of their biggest disagreements will be about taxes.
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 8:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina state government would boost its savings reserves and set aside more money for infrastructure, while still increasing starting teachers' pay, providing additional tax relief for families, and limiting government spending growth.
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2015 @ 9:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory called on lawmakers to honor a promise to increase starting teacher salaries to $35,000 and included salary boosts for state troopers and corrections officers Thursday as he unveiled his $21.5 billion General Fund budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 9:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Teacher pay. Medicaid. These are perhaps the two most contentious spending items in this year’s state budget. But continuing to fly under the radar is taxpayer-funded television programming.
Published: Monday, September 15th, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It’s the journey, not the destination, that matters most — or so we have been assured by deep thinkers ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Steven Tyler.
Published: Friday, August 1st, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate and House leaders on Tuesday rolled out specifics in their $21.3 billion General Fund budget, including an average 7 percent pay increase for teachers that would not eliminate teacher assistant jobs.
Published: Thursday, July 31st, 2014 @ 10:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Our lawmakers have been embroiled in contentious debates about teacher pay and Medicaid, among other issues, as they struggle to revise our $21 billion state budget.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 7:31 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A lot of dollars are riding on how many courses professors in the University of North Carolina system teach (or how many they are perceived to teach). Roughly half of the UNC budget consists of professors' salaries.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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House budget proposal maintains lottery funds at $100M, includes phase out of Medicaid $500K benefitThe House released its initial budget proposal Tuesday, with appropriations subcommittees meeting for several hours to review and amend the proposed committee substitute by subject area.
Published: Friday, June 13th, 2014 @ 2:15 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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