North Carolina breaks top 10 list
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 12:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Democrats passed the centerpiece to Biden’s agenda last week with only one Democrat dissenter. The “Build Back Better” bill supposedly shrunk over time from $3.5 trillion to $2 trillion, yet this is only due to “temporary” programs and misleading math.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans lawmakers in North Carolina scored well in the 2021 “How They Voted” report card released by the N.C. Chamber of Commerce on Monday, Dec. 13.
Published: Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 @ 12:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina would jump from No. 10 to No. 5 in the Tax Foundation’s state business tax climate rankings, if recently approved reforms took effect immediately.
Published: Sunday, December 19th, 2021 @ 5:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With President Biden’s approval rating down to 36 percent, he is now more unpopular than his two predecessors ever were in office.
Published: Friday, December 17th, 2021 @ 4:42 am
By: Luka Laden
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With President Biden’s approval rating down to 36 percent, he is now more unpopular than his two predecessors ever were in office.
Published: Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 @ 1:48 pm
By: Luka Laden
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On Friday, famed actor James Woods, an outspoken conservative, which makes him an anomaly in the vast leftism of Hollywood, tweeted a photo of a rib-eye steak with its exorbitant price and added one rapidly mushrooming meme.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 11:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The last puzzle pieces of a new budget are finally coming together, as both the House and the Senate passed the $25.9 billion budget for the biennium. It is now headed to Gov. Roy Cooper, who announced earlier this week that he intends to sign it.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly is expected to being voting Tuesday on the newly-released 2021-23 conference budget.
Published: Saturday, December 4th, 2021 @ 9:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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So far this year, Gov. Cooper has pledged over $930.7 million in tax incentives to just 22 corporations, including $845.8 million over four decades to Apple
Published: Friday, December 3rd, 2021 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Republicans of the N.C. General Assembly have once again delivered a budget that cuts taxes for all, leaving even more of North Carolinians hard-earned money in their own pockets.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:32 pm
By: Jeff Moore
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In psychology, a Rorschach test is one in which the patient is presented with a series of inkblot images
Published: Thursday, October 21st, 2021 @ 8:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Things are quiet this week on Jones Street in Raleigh, even as work on a state budget plan, which the governor may or may not sign, looms in the legislature.
Published: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 @ 6:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NCACC Weekly Update — June 25
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 3:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Roy Cooper opposes tax cuts for North Carolinians earning more than $200,000 a year.
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 10:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 105 will require a second vote Friday morning.
Published: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 @ 12:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democrats and their left-leaning allies offered the same criticism they have over every state budget Republicans have proposed over the last decade
Published: Monday, June 28th, 2021 @ 4:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"This surplus came largely out of the pockets of North Carolina citizens and they deserve to see some of it returned to them."
Published: Sunday, June 27th, 2021 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A pay-as-you-go approach to capital projects sets the Senate apart from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, whose budget plan called for a $4.7 billion statewide bond package.
Published: Friday, June 25th, 2021 @ 6:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House passed a bill by a vote of 100-5 on Wednesday to exempt military retirement pay from state income taxes.
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 @ 8:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina has over-collected more than $6 billion in state taxes when compared to May of 2020 economic forecasts.
Published: Monday, June 21st, 2021 @ 6:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Overall spending growth will be below GOP's self-imposed spending limitation of population plus inflation increases
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 8:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A proposed tax cut from Senate Republicans would move North Carolina to fifth in the state business tax climate rankings, the Tax Foundation says.
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 7:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It has been four years since the legislature last passed a significant tax reform.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Personal income tax rates would be slashed and the corporate tax rate entirely eliminated by 2028 under a proposal rolled out on Tuesday, May 25, by N.C. Senate Republicans.
Published: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 @ 8:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Over the weekend, a reporter asked me to comment on Senate Bill 493.
Published: Monday, May 3rd, 2021 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Berger said funds should be used for infrastructure, tax relief, state worker salaries, and expansion of school choice not massive, new government expenses.
Published: Friday, April 23rd, 2021 @ 2:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Every North Carolinian who pays personal income tax would see a lower rate, under a proposal from legislative Republicans.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 1:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s latest two-year budget plan would spend far too much money, setting North Carolina’s state government on an unsustainable future path.
Published: Friday, March 26th, 2021 @ 7:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Nellie Liang, Lily Batchelder, Ben Harris, and Jonathan Davidson to serve in key roles at the Department of Treasury.
Published: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 @ 1:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When Democrats attack pro-growth tax reform as “trickle-down economics,” I can understand their rhetorical intent.
Published: Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 @ 11:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A decade of fiscal responsibility and sustainable government could be squandered unless North Carolina taxpayers build some financial guardrails in the state constitution.
Published: Sunday, December 6th, 2020 @ 9:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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