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
GOP Tax Writer Sounds Alarm Over Biden Plan
Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner highlights one lawmaker’s concerns about the Biden administration’s latest spending plans. A chief architect of the 2017 tax cuts said Democrats’ multitrillion-dollar tax and…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
One Democratic Senator Sees His Party’s Spending Plans Are Absurd
Charles Cooke of National Review Online explores recent statements from West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. Per Axios, Joe Manchin may be closer to realizing that the Democrats’ spending plans are…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Hey Charlotte: If spending has such great “economic impact,” why hide huge cost overruns?
My latest article for the American Institute for Economic Research takes note of the fact that, thanks to Eric Rowell of Hunterville’s question, the celebrated “economic impact” study for Charlotte’s proposed…
Agriculture
Freedom To Farm
Read The New Locke-Commissioned Research Report Freedom To Farm The Impacts of Agriculture Regulation On Production and Processing In The South In this paper, author Vincent Smith examines the structure…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Government Drives Up Consumer Costs
Government is a necessary institution, and I would argue that, when it is fulfilling its constitutionally designated role, it has the capacity for much good. I realize some of my…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Amy Cooke: Lefty Report Smears North Carolina. It’s Nonsense.
North Carolina is an obviously better place to work than D.C., New York, and California. But the leftist group Oxfam (supporters of compulsory unionization) is trying to smear N.C. as…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
AOC’s ‘Tax The Rich’ Message Falls Flat
David Harsanyi writes for the New York Post about the latest misguided message from the “wrong” AOC. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez donned an elegant gown with the slogan “Tax the Rich”…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Feature
John Hood’s Carolina Journal Opinion highlights the importance of accurate facts in debates about income and poverty.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Democrats Combine Nanny State, Tribalism With Tobacco Plan
Dominic Pino writes at National Review Online about the problems with Democrats’ tobacco-tax proposals. President Biden promised not to raise taxes on people making less than $400,000 per year. He…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Democratic Tax Hike Proposals Explored
Sarah Westwood of the Washington Examiner looks closely at congressional Democrats’ plans for raising your taxes. House Democrats unveiled a proposed slate of tax hikes this week that would raise…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Digging Into Details of Black Unemployment
Walter Myers uses a National Review Online column to rebut a popular narrative about unemployment among black Americans. Recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its disappointing monthly jobs report,…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
House Tax Proposal Deals More With Revenge Than Revenue
Editors at National Review Online critique the latest tax proposal from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues. House Democrats have put forward a worst-of-both-worlds tax proposal: punishing…