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.
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Reality Morphs Covid Funds into Windfall for NC K-12 Education, Part 1
Under the growing threat of a coronavirus combined with the government-imposed economic shutdown, Congress approved $6 billion in Covid-19 relief funds for K-12 public schools in North Carolina. A recovering…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Carolina Journal Online reports on the 36-14 state Senate vote to approve a tax reform package. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion highlights Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s recognition that politics can’t solve…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Debt and the American Experience
Household debt has doubled since 2003. American households are now $14.56 trillion in debt (still far less than the U.S. government’s whopping $28 trillion) which shakes out to around $118,000 per…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Yellen’s Misguided Push for a Global Minimum Tax
Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner reports recent developments surrounding one of the Biden administration’s bad ideas. While the Biden administration is hailing the commitment from the Group of Seven…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Jeff Moore reports for Carolina Journal Online about Republican legislators’ focus on election integrity. John Hood’s CJ Opinion explains how cutting the corporate tax rate helps consumers.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The NC Threat-Free Index for the Week Ending June 7 — Plus a Herd Immunity Update
All things considered, over 99.9% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. An estimated 70.3% of adult North Carolinians now have immunity.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Locke President Donald Bryson Responds to Legislature’s Budget Agreement
Today, John Locke Foundation President Donald Bryson responded to the announcement from North Carolina legislative leaders on an agreement for the state’s biennium budget total. John Locke Foundation President Donald Bryson…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
House, Senate Agree to Total Spending Amount for State Budget
House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger today released a joint statement announcing that the two chambers have come to an agreement on the total amount…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Three Reasons Why North Carolina Should Eliminate Its Corporate Income Tax
Eliminating the state corporate income tax would enable a more fair tax climate for businesses. Research shows that workers are most harmed by the corporate tax. Corporate tax elimination, combined…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Dallas Woodhouse reports for Carolina Journal Online about former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Congressman Ted Budd in North Carolina’s 2022 U.S. Senate race. John Hood’s CJ Opinion explains that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
NC Covid Numbers Fall Off a Cliff, While DHHS Discovers “New” Deaths from … 2020
Here are how North Carolina's Covid numbers have changed in the three weeks since Cooper's announcement. They are dropping like Wile E. Coyote after looking down.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Harvard Professor of Medicine: Why I Spoke Out Against Lockdowns
Martin Kulldorff writes of the strange response he and other health experts received from U.S. media and big tech when they spoke from their expertise about the initial and ongoing…