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
The NC Threat-Free Index for the week ending April 19
All things considered, about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone — a virus most had never had and the rest had recovered…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Time to make spending restraint a permanent policy for North Carolina
Conservative spending restraint was key to preparing North Carolina for last year’s economic slowdown. Similar restraint could have avoided the fiscal crisis we experienced in the Great Recession. A Tax…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dallas Woodhouse reports for Carolina Journal Online on Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s decision not to run for U.S. Senate in 2022. The Daily Journal explains how child tax deduction changes…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Five Reasons North Carolina Needs a Taxpayer Bill of Rights
Legislators last week introduced SB 717, Taxpayer Bill of Rights. The bill would put to a vote of the people in 2022 an amendment to the state constitution that would…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper cost his favorite restaurant over $2,000/day. What did he do to yours?
Anyone with any compassion has to be distraught over what Gov. Roy Cooper has done to the state’s small businesses over the past 13 months so far. On Friday, Donna…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
A worthwhile ‘workers party’
James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute explores what it would mean for the Republican Party to focus on American workers. The notion of the Republican Party — or any…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online about a distiller’s battle with N.C. regulators over online sales. John Hood’s CJ Opinion argues that too many workers are sidelined. Terry Stoops’…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Legislators consider ways to encourage broadband expansion into unserved parts of NC
SB 689 would take up recent Locke recommendations for broadband expansion. It would charge broadband providers fairer rates for utility-pole attachments, including the net book value of any pole needing…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Voices of the pandemic shutdown: 3 NC business owners tell their stories
COVID-19 – the virus and the shutdown – have been incredibly difficult for all of us. I lost my father-in-law to the virus, shocking my family and imprinting 2020 on…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Mike Rowe knows why a higher minimum wage means bad news
Margot Cleveland of the Federalist focuses on one high-profile critic of raising the government-mandated minimum wage. I worked a “dirty job.” On my 14th birthday, I cleaned toilets, for the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New national commission would focus on balancing federal budget
Nihal Krishan of the Washington Examiner highlights a new proposal from Republicans on Capitol Hill. Senate Republicans will introduce legislation … to create a new bipartisan national commission to reduce…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Proposed Taxpayer Bill of Rights spotlights contrast in governing
If you want to see the difference in philosophy of government, look first at spending. For a glaring example, compare Gov. Roy Cooper’s big budget blowout with the sustainable spending…