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.
Cooper’s budget is just a Christmas list for cronies
Cooper’s budget proposal is an unrealistic political document, not a serious budget plan. It would increase budgeted expenditures over the current year by 11.6 percent. The budget would direct hundreds…
Coke, baseball, and disturbing changes in America
Clarice Feldman of the American Thinker ponders disturbing changes in two staples of American life. Until very recently, it would have been hard to imagine anything more iconic of American…
Biden’s green energy plans raise questions for union allies
Rebecca Rainey and Eric Wolff write at Politico about concerns from one of President Biden’s traditional allies. President Joe Biden touted his $2 trillion infrastructure plan as a “once-in-a-generation” effort…
Business groups pan Biden infrastructure plan
Geoff Earle writes for the Daily Mail about one significant source of opposition to the president’s new $2 trillion plan. Major American business groups have lined up against President Joe…
Biden backs biggest tax hike since Bill Clinton
James Antle of the Washington Examiner reminds readers about another major tax hike enacted under a Democratic president. To help pay for his latest $2 trillion spending package, President Joe…
Biden’s infrastructure ‘binge’ not necessary
Editors at National Review Online take aim at the president’s infrastructure plan. Joe Biden announced his plan for more than $2 trillion in spending on infrastructure and an oversized grab…
The Right AOC on Point: Cooper’s reckless political wish list offers important warning
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” explains why Gov. Roy Cooper’s new budget plan should send a warning signal to fiscal conservatives. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow…
Cooper’s education budget: following the money tells you a lot
Cooper recommends 11 and 16 percent spending increases for K-12 public education for the next biennium, focusing on teacher and administrator pay increases, bonuses, hiring more staff and raising pay…
New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online about the N.C. Senate’s election reform measures. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion urges policymakers to reject a mileage tax scheme.
Policy differences across states have little impact on Covid Misery Index
It is not clear that states have sacrificed jobs to save lives or sacrificed lives to save jobs. North Carolina now does well on the combined impact of Covid deaths…
New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online about a “failure of oversight” linked to North Carolina’s 2016 election. John Hood’s CJ Opinion argues that North Carolina already has enough debt.
The NC Threat-Free Index for the week ending March 29, plus a discussion of herd immunity
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…