In 2023, it seemed that a war against women was happening. Roe v. Wade was repealed after 50 years of precedent. Governors and Legislatures across the country put the clamps on abortion.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 @ 2:33 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy Find that North Carolina's Seven Largest Hospital Systems Reaped Billions of Dollars in Cash, Investments and Profits After Taking COVID Relief
Published: Thursday, June 30th, 2022 @ 7:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2019, Gov. Roy Cooper pledged $146.0 million in corporate welfare to 66 corporations. In 2020, amid shutting down and crippling small businesses with extreme executive orders, Cooper pledged $519.3 million in corporate giveaways to just 48 corporations.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 2:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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gives illegal aliens child ''tax credit''
Published: Saturday, October 30th, 2021 @ 8:22 am
By: John Steed
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Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Nellie Liang, Lily Batchelder, Ben Harris, and Jonathan Davidson to serve in key roles at the Department of Treasury.
Published: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 @ 1:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For decades, Donald J. Trump was one of the few prominent Americans to recognize the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party and its threat to America's economic and political way of life.
Published: Friday, November 6th, 2020 @ 6:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hello, everyone. It's another historic day here at the White House.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 5:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts wrote a research brief that provides an alternative to the current health insurance status quo.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2020 @ 2:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, JLF’s Jon Sanders wrote a research brief on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2020 @ 8:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A lot of attention in the aftermath of elections on November 5 focused on nationalizing voting trends in Virginia and Kentucky.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2019 @ 10:34 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Since 2005, North Carolina has provided over $404 million in subsidies (tax credits and grant payments) to film production companies.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 6:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In December 2018, I wrote the following: “As a general rule, the public and politicians should never view economic impact studies as anything more than an attempt by special interests to manipulate public opinion for their own benefit.”
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2019 @ 11:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Among many in the Democratic Party, attacking the rich is back in style.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 2:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) greets Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) before a ceremonial swearing-in picture on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2019 @ 12:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Bill 820, which skyrockets tax incentives for “big boys with deep pockets,” rampaged through the North Carolina General Assembly last week like a General Patton simile
Published: Saturday, December 22nd, 2018 @ 1:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When is it acceptable for a Republican president to openly brag about liking taxes?
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 9:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a puzzling expression regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, describes a major goal of their protectionist trade policies: "reciprocal trade."
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2018 @ 3:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As China tangles with the President Trump over trade, North Carolina growers fear a collapse in demand, and say that even Trump's proposed $12 billion boost in farm subsidies won't stanch the billions they would bleed in a prolonged trade war
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2018 @ 11:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a puzzling term regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, is the ultimate goal of their protectionist trade policies. The phrase is "reciprocal trade."
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1886, Sir Edward Clarke delivered a speech in the U.K. House of Commons and in polite way of insulting someone, he said: "The mind was indeed so open that it had nothing in it at all."
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 10:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Government is bigger and more expensive than it needs to be, thanks to an economic concept called the "special interest effect."
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 @ 5:25 pm
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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It is now being acknowledged by even its staunchest supporters that the solar industry in North Carolina is completely a creature of government mandates and subsidies and could never stand on its own without wealth transfers from taxpayers and rate payers. In other words, it is completely welfare...
Published: Saturday, September 12th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory has announced that, as part of his "all-of-the-above" energy strategy (whatever that means), North Carolina will be getting its first industrial size wind-farm, part of a partnership between Amazon and a wind power company called Iberdrola. Of course, probably the most important...
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 4:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers would harm, not help, the state's economic growth if they extend and expand corporate tax incentive programs.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 10:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was announced on Tuesday that Mercedes-Benz has decided to move its corporate headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta, GA, and not to the Raleigh area, as many were hoping. According to this article in the Triangle Business Journal, Georgia offered the company $23 million in corporate welfare...
Published: Friday, April 3rd, 2015 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week I reported that, based on this quote, the actions of the Governor and many state legislators in pushing new corporate welfare schemes were at odds with the Republican Party Platform. I was wrong. Shortly after my newsletter went out, I received an email telling me that, in the latest...
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 6:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week the John Locke Foundation received a letter from three US Senators as part of a nationwide witch-hunt targeting scientists, universities, advocacy groups, and think tanks who are skeptical of or have presented any evidence that contradicts the alarmist line on global warming. The letter...
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the national level, Republicans have surrendered on taxes, debt, gays in the military, ObamaCare and amnesty. On the state level, the NCGOP is in the midst of surrendering on ObamaCare, taxes, and amnesty.
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 10:00 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Keynesianism is indeed a disease on the body politic in democratic society. An economic doctrine of technocratic arrogance, it ... gives scope to the opportunistic behavior of politicians who become unconstrained by Keynesianism in practice.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I worked in the area of Insurance Estate Tax planning with a Series 6 Securities License as well.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Affluent North Carolina residents who put solar panels on their rooftops are being subsidized by lower-income customers because of the state's renewable energy subsidies and regulations, the president of Duke Energy North Carolina told a legislative panel Tuesday.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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