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.
New bill would require “truth in lending” language for government bonds
When a person takes out a mortgage to buy a home, there are significant “truth-in-lending” laws requiring the loan contract disclose -among other things – the interest payments that will…
Lockdowns as class warfare
Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker places government lockdowns in a context class-obsessed lefties should understand. A year after “15 days to flatten the curve” began our lockdowns, we have…
Does the Rescue Plan attack state sovereignty?
Is Joe Biden and Congress trying to dictate tax policy to all 50 states? On Monday, Joe Coletti highlighted – among other reasons – that North Carolina should “just say…
Child suicide, the awful epidemic driven by pandemic restrictions
"The child suicide is only the latest mortifying revelation showing just how big a toll these policies have taken on us. We must factor this human damage into our analysis…
Coronavirus funding for K-12 schools — and you thought it was for the students
North Carolina has a fund balance of $5.4 billion, the state has yet to spend $254 million of previous federally distributed aid, and schools will receive another $3.8 billion in…
The NC Threat-Free Index for the week ending March 15
All things considered, nearly 99.7% 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…
Using stimulus checks for ‘anti-fragility’
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist offers readers ideas for using the federal government’s latest stimulus checks. Democrats’ fifth round of “coronavirus” “stimulus” will soon hand another $1,400 in government debt,…
Infrastructure plan would ratchet up federal spending again
Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner highlights congressional Democrats’ latest idea for spending money the federal government doesn’t have. Now that President Biden has signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending…
Bill filed to give away millions of taxpayer dollars to Hollywood studios
A bill was filed today that would add another $34 million to the program that gives away taxpayer dollars to wealthy Hollywood movie studios. Senate Bill 268, sponsored by Michael…
Entrepreneurship is on the rise in NC
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Plato is credited with first espousing this principle over 2,300 years ago. The pandemic has proven the wisdom of it for our…
Send it back! And four not-awful ways legislators could use the next round of Covid cash
Any state that has $5.4 billion in unspent money should have no need for another $5.2 billion, especially since taking the money could mean no tax cuts until 2024.
Virus and government restrictions flip our behavior on its head
Food for thought. The chart below from Axios details the monumental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and government restrictions on our most basic activity: eating. Remember, it wasn’t all that…