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.
Research warns lockdowns and other restrictions have deadly consequences. What about Cooper’s? Part 2
An analysis of CDC estimates and DHHS deaths data for North Carolina finds that North Carolina has been witnessing more excess deaths than COVID deaths. These worrisome findings seem to…
Covid-19 bill in Congress still awful, unnecessary and potentially counterproductive
Moderate Democrats in the Senate are the last line of defense for fiscal sanity and against the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 disaster exacerbation bill. With the economy strengthening, vaccines promised for…
Some companies refuse to bow to cancel culture
Joseph Simonson of the Washington Examiner highlights notable examples of large companies that are refusing to go along with today’s toxic cancel culture. Seemingly every day, the world’s biggest corporations…
AOC offers ‘terrible’ argument for minimum-wage hike
David Harsanyi explains at National Review Online why U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is wrong about the government-mandated minimum wage. He focuses specifically on AOC’s statistic that McDonald’s workers in Denmark…
Research warns lockdowns and other restrictions have deadly consequences. What about Cooper’s? Part 1
Data from the CDC and DHHS showed that NC was suffering excess deaths without even counting COVID-19 deaths, but DHHS data reporting is so far behind, it's incomplete after late…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Andrew Dunn reports for Carolina Journal on a report that warns North Carolina might run out of money soon for transportation projects. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion argues that now is…
State Debt Nearly One-Third Lower Than in 2013
The State Treasurer’s office released today its latest debt affordability study, which showed that not only did North Carolina maintain its AAA credit rating, it reminded us once again of…
The NC Threat-Free Index for the week ending March 1
All things considered, over 99.6% 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…
Coke, woke and broke, offers cautionary tale
Daniel Greenfield writes for Front Page Mag about the problems plaguing one of America’s most familiar brands. “Get woke, go broke”, is a conservative meme about the cost of political…
Earmarks still mean bad news for taxpayers
Joni Ernst and Tom Schatz write for National Review Online about the disturbing return of congressional earmarks. Congress isn’t even waiting to lift the decade-long moratorium on earmarking before starting…
Nine states have universal license recognition, but not NC
Universal license recognition is an idea that the North Carolina General Assembly has entertained but not yet adopted. Why not?
Targeting states to expand Medicaid
The COVID bribe would increase the federal match for non-expansion recipients by 5% the next two years in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid, plus Missouri and Oklahoma. That’s not taking…