Budget, Taxation & Economy
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.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains Remains a Bad Idea
Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online ponders a terrible idea on Capitol Hill. Vampires are — so the stories go — extremely difficult to kill, and so it’s somehow appropriate…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Democrat Manchin Stands Up Against Trillions in New Spending
Charles Cooke of National Review Online highlights one Democratic U.S. senator’s opposition to his party’s massive spending plan. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has just put out a statement…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
NC teacher retirement system great for taxpayers, average overall
In Teacher Retirement Systems: A Ranking of the States, researchers from Bellweather Education Partners rank the teacher retirement systems of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The report…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
North Carolina Schools are flush with Covid-19 cash. Will they use it wisely?
Federal Covid legislation has brought over $6 billion in funding to North Carolina schools. The additional money equates to approximately $3,900 per student, almost four times the 2019-20 annual federal…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
House Dems’ $100 Billion Tax Hike Targets the Poor
Patrick Hauf of the Washington Free Beacon details the potential impact of one tax proposal touted by U.S. House Democrats. The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget proposal relies on a $100…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Biden’s Trillion-Dollar ‘Malarkey’ Exposed
Editors at National Review Online critique one of the president’s mystifying claims. Joe Biden insists that his overstuffed, $3.5 trillion slop-pail of a spending package “costs zero dollars.” President Biden…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper Celebrates “Manufacturing Week” With More Hypocrisy
Gov. Roy Cooper yesterday declared this to be “North Carolina Manufacturing Week.” At the same time, he also demonstrated yet again his blatant hypocrisy on “corporate tax breaks.” Over the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Top Democrat’s Stimulus Prediction Falls Flat
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon shares some inconvenient facts for one top congressional Democrat. A top House Democrat promised his party’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill would “get kids…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Democrats: Tax Cuts Costly, Trillions in New Spending ‘Free’
David Harsanyi writes at National Review Online about Democrats’ dubious approach toward costs associated with tax cuts and government spending. Liberal pundits contend that the $3.5 trillion welfare-state expansion “costs…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
States Question Authority for COVID Relief Funds
In March 2021 President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Later, in May, states received guidance from Treasury on how states could spend the funds, including…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending September 27
This past week nearly 99.4% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly five out of six (82.1%) adult North Carolinians are estimated…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Leandro Plan Would Have Benefited from Collaboration with the General Assembly
For nearly three decades, Leandro v. State of North Carolina has had the potential to bring together elected officials from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches for the benefit of…