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
Refuting myths about the ‘1%’
In touting his latest proposal to raise taxes on North Carolinians, Democratic state Sen. Wiley Nickel recently offered this claim: “North Carolina Republicans have rigged the system so that those…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online about families’ long-time student learning challenges tied to COVID-19 school closures. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion urges lawmakers to move forward with a plan…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Democrats and teachers’ unions: trying to fool us twice
The American Rescue Plan Act's $130 billion for K-12 education included $3.6 billion for North Carolina public schools, but strangely for an emergency, only 5 percent of that education spending…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The negative impacts of Biden’s “infrastructure” plan for NC they don’t want you to know
The Biden administration is putting on a propaganda blitz to garner support for its $2 trillion “infrastructure” plan. Part of that blitz includes “fact sheets” for every state. Here is…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The NC Threat-Free Index for the week ending April 12
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…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Legislators consider a bill to protect electricity consumers
A bill before the General Assembly would restore the state's protection of North Carolina's top stakeholders in electricity policy: the consumers. Such protection is absolutely vital.
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper’s reckless budget, Part 2: A closer look at appropriations
The largest increase in Cooper's proposed state appropriations would be for employee salaries and benefits. Cooper's proposal does not provide price tags for Leandro or Medicaid expansion. Cooper would also…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Biden’s real reason for supporting corporate tax hikes
Editors at the Washington Examiner offer a compelling explanation for President Biden’s support of higher corporate taxes. Economists will tell you that hiking corporate tax rates doesn’t help the working…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
N.Y. versus N.C. on taxes
Patrick Gleason writes in Forbes about contrasting approach to post-pandemic state tax policy. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) and the Democratic-run state legislature in Albany are moving forward with…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on a bill in the N.C. House to reopen state bars and restaurants at full capacity. A new CJ Opinion urges people to…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper’s reckless budget, Part 1: Overview
Cooper’s 2021-23 biennium budget is more a political statement than a realistic proposal. It would leave state government fiscally fragile and at greater risk of layoffs and tax increases in…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on North Carolina’s average teacher pay topping $54,000 a year. John Hood’s CJ Opinion urges N.C. policymakers to focus on lowering the corporate…