Over the weekend, a reporter asked me to comment on Senate Bill 493.
Published: Monday, May 3rd, 2021 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Credit to Gov. Roy Cooper for finding a way to finagle what should fundamentally be an issue about fairness for his advantage.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 @ 5:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina taxpayers are paying Merck, the $210 billion dollar pharmaceutical company that produces Viagra, among other drugs, some $12.5 million in tax incentives to build in Durham.
Published: Monday, July 29th, 2019 @ 6:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The economic costs of corporate tax incentives outweigh their benefits, a new study by N.C. State University researchers says.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 5:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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No big announcement. No contentious public meetings. No press conference. But most important — no economic incentives.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 4:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Was Apple's choice of Austin, Texas, over the Research Triangle for its new, $1 billion campus a win or a loss for North Carolina
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2018 @ 4:29 am
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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It's a safe bet that state Rep. Jonathan Jordan agrees with Republican colleagues Bill Brawley, Susan Martin, and Scott Stone much more often than he agrees with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incoming New York congresswoman and newly elevated champion of the political left
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When are special interest subsidies not just special interest subsidies?
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2018 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine you are a middle school student called on stage in front of 75 of your friends and peers
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Try as I might, I can't see the wisdom behind this proposed "transformative" projects expansion. I can't. It's terrible
Published: Thursday, May 24th, 2018 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative leaders will boost tax-paid subsidies available in the $23.9 billion 2018-19 budget proposal to induce multibillion-dollar corporations to locate in the state
Published: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has a history of publicly denouncing “corporate tax giveaways.” Indeed, last year he offered up this question: “Are we going to invest in education and our people, or are we going to continue with further corporate tax giveaways?”
Published: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 @ 4:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Earlier this month Amazon announced it was looking for a second headquarters in North America
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 @ 4:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The current political spat between North Carolina’s governor and legislature has produced plenty of heated rhetoric
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 9:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposal to try to lure the film industry to make movies, TV shows, and commercials in North Carolina by returning to an abandoned tax incentives program is meeting resistance
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two leading legislative critics of tax incentives to the renewable energy industry have not taken issue with an unusual new program used by Duke Energy Progress allowing high-consumption electricity customers using traditional energy to claim their plants are powered by renewable sources
Published: Sunday, February 21st, 2016 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Saying the current plan is antiquated, a legislative agency on Monday recommended that the state scrap its three-tiered system for awarding economic development grants.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2005, the North Carolina General Assembly established a 35 percent credit for investing in renewable energy. This credit was slated to sunset at the end of 2010. By 2010-11, the Tax Research Division of the Department of Revenue estimated, the credits taken would cost the state $5.65 million...
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 10:53 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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The editors of The Fayetteville Observer are interested in the film industry and with storytelling in general. An example of the latter came to my attention recently.
Published: Sunday, February 15th, 2015 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's film tax incentives program has changed significantly. Formerly a refundable tax credit of 25 percent of qualifying production expenses capped at $20 million per production, the program now is a $10 million grant program.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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