Regulation
Government regulations typically restrict people’s behaviors and choices– causing economic damage, especially to society’s vulnerable who can least afford to comply. Locke works to deregulate and support innovation and growth.
If a policy acts as a rule, it should be adopted as a rule
A bill before the General Assembly would address what's known as regulatory dark matter. It would make executive agencies bring their unseen rules into the light as rules.
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online about an omnibus bill targeting state alcohol regulations. A new CJ Opinion article explains how Democratic senators chose their political party over the…
Biden’s Chief of Staff: $2.3 Trillion ‘Infrastructure’ Plan Isn’t Big Government
I suppose we should give the Biden White House credit for sticking to its talking points, even when the talking points defy logic. In an interview with Mike Allen for…
Dismantling Barriers To Economic Mobility in North Carolina
Locke report identifies pathway to equal justice and opportunity RALEIGH — For every North Carolinian to thrive, we must clear the pathway blocked by entrenched and historic impediments that narrow opportunity and…
Fight regulatory dark matter by defining terms properly
Regulatory dark matter is an executive agency's policies, guidelines, memos, or interpretive statements of rules that the agency then enforces as if they are the rules themselves. House Bill 361…
N.C. ranks No. 12 in Cato list of regulatory barriers for entrepreneurs
North Carolina ranks among the nation’s top 12, when it comes to limiting the state regulatory burden for businesses. That’s according to the latest report from the Cato Institute. Who’s…
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on a recent meeting that exposed basic problems with North Carolina’s alcohol regulations. Bob Luebke’s CJ Opinion touts the value of learning-loss education…
SB 349, Increase Housing Opportunities is a good idea. Here’s what I had to say about it.
I spoke in favor of SB 349, Increase Housing Opportunities this afternoon in the Senate Finance Committee. Here’s what I said: With the new census numbers in and as Apple’s…
SB 455, Decriminalize non-Statutory Offenses is a good idea
North Carolina’s criminal code is a mess. The sheer number of criminal laws and regulations are inaccessible and haphazardly organized so as to make it virtually impossible for regular citizens…
State elections board is trying to make elections less transparent
The NC State Board of Elections is attempting to make our elections process less transparent. The state board’s attempt to limit the number of observers to two per day is…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Johnny Kampis reports for Carolina Journal Online about legislation that would ease health care red tape and boost health care access. A new CJ Opinion explains how “sticky” tax policy…
How Biden intends to rule by regulatory dark matter
It's a disturbing act for a president to beat back transparency and restore ruling in the shadows by guidance documents, interpretive statements, memos, and other things never formally introduced as…