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.
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending January 3
This past week about 98.8% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. Also about 11 out of 12 (91.4%) adult North Carolinians are…
North Carolina’s Success with Sunset Provisions Should Allay HHS’s Worries
On December 28, 2021, Jon Sanders submitted public comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding HHS's proposed rule to rescind its recently finalized Securing Updated…
Challenging North Carolina’s Pernicious and Unconstitutional Certificate of Need Law
North Carolina’s Certificate of Need law harms patients, insurers, and taxpayers by making health care more expensive and less accessible. New Bern eye surgeon Jay Singleton has filed a lawsuit…
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending December 20
This past week over 99.6% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly nine out of 10 (89.9%) adult North Carolinians are…
Sick? Semper Tyrannus
Alarmingly, people in the world’s freest societies … have allowed totalitarian restrictions so long as they were euphemized as safety measures. Without the gloss, they include house arrest, dehumanizing dress codes,…
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending December 13
This past week over 99.6% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly nine out of 10 (89.7%) adult North Carolinians are…
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending December 6
This past week over 99.7% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly nine out of 10 (89.5%) adult North Carolinians are…
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending November 29
This past week about 99.8% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and eight out of nine (88.9%) adult North Carolinians…
Time to Amend the Emergency Management Act, Concluded
The recently enacted budget bill makes two badly needed changes to the Emergency Management Act (EMA) One of those changes ensures that the governor may only exercise extraordinary emergency powers…
Biden’s HHS: We Don’t Have Time to Review Regulations, We’re Too Busy Enforcing Them
Last year, HHS instituted a periodic review process with sunset provision for all agency rules, a reform that in North Carolina has cut over one in 10 regulations. HHS did…
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending November 22
This past week about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and eight out of nine (88.8%) adult North Carolinians are estimated to…
Is DHHS about to change the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’?
Imagine a scenario where people's jobs, education, travel, grocery buying, access to government services, etc. are threatened every six months if they don't get another booster.