Budget, Taxation & Economy
At the state legislature, Locke advocates for limiting the expenditure of tax dollars and strictly limiting its tax burdens on families and businesses.
Wake County: Brace Yourselves for Another Tax Increase
The property tax bill for a median value home would increase a whopping 20 percent.
The Uncompelling Case for NCInnovation
If we examine the case for public funding of NCInnovation, it is becoming clearer that the prospect is uncompelling.
Cooper’s Budget Plan: An Unrealistic, Unserious Political Document
Cooper's budget proposal would mark the largest year-over-year budget increase in 40 years
Tough Week For North Carolina Corporate Welfare Queens
Someday politicians in Raleigh will stop the corporate welfare schemes and treat all businesses fairly and equally.
Fujifilm Gets Another Helping at the Trough
Gov. Cooper – Who Supposedly Opposes “Corporate Tax Giveaways” – Gives Yet Another Tax Break to Multi-billion Dollar International Corporation
The Difficult Conundrum of the Central Planners
When the plans of central planners don't pan out, their choice is to ratchet up government force, or admit failure. We all know how much politicians don't like admitting failure.
Why You Can Ignore the Left’s Fearmongering About Future NC Budget Deficits
They've been wrongly predicting shortfalls for more than a decade, they have zero credibility on this issue.
NCInnovation: So NOW They Run a Pilot Program
Organization secured a commitment of $500 million taxpayer dollars without a single successful example to point to.
Red Flags Galore: What Texas’ Government-Backed Venture Capital Failure Can Teach Us
You’ve heard about red flags in professional and personal relationships: Inflated sense of self Ignoring feedback Lack of transparency Unclear goals and ways to measure outcomes Heeding those red flags…
NCInnovation: Time to Pump the Brakes on This Unproven Experiment?
A change in budget bill language restricted NCInnovation to funding university research, yet it still represents picking winners and losers in the marketplace. The group had not made a single…
New Paper Shows the Practical Impossibility of Central Planning
Socialist systems distrust the spontaneous order in market distribution of goods and replace it with central planners — with notoriously worse results. A new paper tested the hypothesis that this…
Another Failed Corporate Welfare Handout
On the same day one corporate welfare deal announces its failure, another new one takes its place.