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When Democrats attack pro-growth tax reform as “trickle-down economics,” I can understand their rhetorical intent.
Published: Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 @ 11:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s tax and fee collections continued to improve from a year ago, according to the latest General Fund Monthly Report from the Office of the State Controller.
Published: Sunday, December 13th, 2020 @ 8:20 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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Taxes and employee benefits are at the center of the race for N.C. treasurer.
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 12:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday night that he plans to initiate an investigation into President Donald Trump’s taxes and will have city officials check whether Trump has paid his “fair share.”
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 3:57 am
By: Daily Wire
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The full picture for 2019 income taxes is now available, but it does not provide much clarity about the revenue picture for the rest of FY2020-21.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2020 @ 4:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Let's talk taxes.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 11:34 am
By: Keith D Kidwell
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Is 2020 not bad enough yet?
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 @ 6:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Cunningham Raised Taxes During The 2001 Recession, Wants To Do It Again
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2020 @ 4:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State agencies continued to hold back spending in May. General Fund appropriations for the month of May were down 3% compared to May 2019 to $2.289 billion, according to the latest report from the State Controller.
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2020 @ 12:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nearly every election cycle, a handful of counties place a sales tax referendum on the ballot.
Published: Thursday, February 27th, 2020 @ 5:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over at PoliticsNC.com, former political consultant Thomas Mills re-runs the old trope about how low-income North Carolinians pay a higher share of their income in taxes relative to high-income earners.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 1:34 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Over at PoliticsNC.com, former political consultant Thomas Mills re-runs the old trope about how low-income North Carolinians pay a higher share of their income in taxes relative to high-income earners.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2020 @ 11:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As a County Commissioner I will do everything I can to keep taxes low, and the government out of your business.
Published: Monday, February 3rd, 2020 @ 9:41 am
By: Tandy Oliver Dunn
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Conservative North Carolinians believe that lower taxes translate into higher levels of economic growth and personal freedom.
Published: Saturday, January 11th, 2020 @ 2:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Expect many of this year's debates to omit important questions about the impact of new taxes.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2020 @ 5:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Supporters of higher taxes cheered the WestEd report on North Carolina schools that became public on December 10th, five months after Judge David Lee received it.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2019 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As many predicted, the California-based consulting firm WestEd is recommending North Carolina spend billions of taxpayer dollars on pre-schools and district schools to meet the requirements of the Leandro case.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 @ 7:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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During the golden age of tapping, in the 1930s and early 1940s, this quintessential American art form played a sizable role in pop culture.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you have forgotten who Horace Greeley was, don't feel badly. He probably does not know who you are either.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 3:23 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Senate Bill 557, which was approved by the legislature and is sitting on Gov. Cooper’s desk, is a bit of a mixed bag.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 11:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Democratic party’s most radically progressive candidates, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, have promised to impose a tax on wealth.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 6:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $5 billion tax increase, his Republican rivals would be both furious and gleeful — furious about the potential economic consequences, that is, and gleeful about the political ones.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Unless you are buying your marijuana from a dispensary in a state where it’s legal, you probably aren’t paying taxes on your illicit substances.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2019 @ 8:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When defending their pay-as-you-go statewide school construction plan, Republican legislators sometimes appear perplexed.
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2019 @ 10:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Although it may not appear so, the leaders of both major political parties in North Carolina favor lowering the tax burden of large businesses.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 8:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate approved the Tax Reduction Act of 2019 on a 28-13 vote on Monday, May 20, and sent it to the House. Last Thursday, the bill passed its initial vote by a 26-19 margin.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 12:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate passed Senate Bill 622 Thursday, May 16, and Republicans project it will reduce individual and corporate taxes by $800 million over the next five years.
Published: Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 @ 8:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Every one of us could find some productive use of an extra $20. Those at the lower end of the income scale are most likely to notice whether that money ends up in their wallet or with the N.C. Department of Revenue.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 4:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Earlier this week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that would provide tax relief for children receiving benefits who have lost a parent serving in the military.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 2:30 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Residents in Wilson, Salisbury, Mooresville, Davidson, and Morganton were being hit with higher taxes and even electricity and water rates as their cities were bleeding money. Why?
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 @ 11:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The promise of “Medicare for All” polls well. But if Democrats endorse the concept in large numbers, and make it or some other large-scale expansion of government health plans a centerpiece of the party’s brand going into the 2020 election cycle, Republicans will be among the prime beneficiaries
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 @ 4:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is change progress. We ought not confuse the two lest we become confused.
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2018 @ 3:16 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The great British statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a critic of his government's treatment of the American colonies in the years preceding the Revolutionary War
Published: Monday, November 26th, 2018 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After more than a year dangling the carrot to Raleigh and other communities Amazon finally announced their choices for their HQ2 project. Once again Raleigh didn't win the proposed 50,000 jobs and $5 billion investment. Curiously, we can't find many really upset about it
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2018 @ 8:08 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In addition to choosing representatives, and deciding six statewide constitutional amendments Tuesday, Nov. 6, North Carolina voters approved more than $1.8 billion in local bonds for K-12 and community college projects, parks and open spaces, low-income housing, and street improvements
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 @ 2:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State governments treat public university land as non-taxable because the mission of these institutions is nonprofit education
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 3:02 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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