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beats more established parties for third place in popular vote
Published: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 9:45 am
By: John Steed
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doesn't even give an excuse as to why she is not there
Published: Monday, October 17th, 2022 @ 8:59 pm
By: John Steed
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President Joe Biden is set to embark on part three of his two-week vacation away from doing God knows what in the White House. With no traditional press conference lined up, Americans have no way of knowing what the president is really up to in The First State — where he currently is spending his ti
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 10:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden is poised to sign on Tuesday, will raise taxes on companies by a net $197 billion over the next decade.
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2022 @ 11:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is hitting the campaign trail to ramp up support for Republicans in key races ahead of the midterm elections.
Published: Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 10:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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Whenever Pete speeks, our readers would well served to know a substantive view of a special time in America's better history. This speech was delivered to the wakeful ears of the Pasquotank County GOP.
Published: Monday, February 8th, 2021 @ 9:44 am
By: Pete Benton
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Cunningham Raised Taxes During The 2001 Recession, Wants To Do It Again
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2020 @ 4:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Steve Forbes offers Forbes magazine readers a history lesson that could help guide economic policy after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 @ 7:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Propaganda takes many forms. The American people have had a complete and broad education in all forms of propaganda during the past three years of the Trump administration.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 @ 8:57 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Commissioner Jerry Langley formally initiated the conversation among the Beaufort County Commissioners that a new jail or "Public Safety Complex" (vernacular for Progressives) should be considered and built.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 3:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Since President Trump has taken office, economic growth rates have soared, 4.2 percent in the last quarter, and unemployment rates are the lowest in decades, at present 3.7 percent
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2018 @ 12:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's elementary and secondary schools are among the best in the country at delivering academic value for the tax dollars spent on them
Published: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 @ 3:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators and policy advocates debated Tuesday in Gastonia over a proposed constitutional amendment which would lower the cap on state income tax rates from 10 to 7 percent
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 1:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's economy is in reasonably good shape. Over the past five years of available data, our state's employers have added 480,000 net new jobs, with our job-creation rate exceeding the national and Southeastern averages
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 3:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State income tax reforms have removed thousands of North Carolinians from the income tax rolls.
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2017 @ 3:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the past four years Beaufort County has had a major change in financial policy.
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 2:51 am
By: Hood Richardson
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North Carolina Democrats running for statewide offices this year are trying to convince voters that Republicans favor higher taxes on "working people" while they, the Democrats, favor lower taxes on "working people."
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 @ 10:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers grappling with Medicaid reform should combine elements of competing proposals in the state House and Senate to give patients more choices while remaining accountable to taxpayers, a panel of experts at an April 13 briefing for policy makers and industry officials said.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 3:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I suppose if you thought Kay Hagan's reelection campaign was a brilliant exercise in political rhetoric, you might try to reuse her talking points to win the political debates of 2015 or the political races of 2016.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 11:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Robeson County reduced the workweeks for 367 part-time employees and capped them at 25 hours weekly to avoid higher health insurance costs associated with mandates in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Billionaire Jim Simons, a major contributor to a Democratic political candidates, funds, and causes, has come under fire from federal investigators, a move that has not gone unnoticed by the North Carolina Republican Party.
Published: Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 @ 4:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When liberals debate tax policy, it can be hard to keep track of their current positions. They keep changing.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was having a decent morning yesterday until I saw the latest television ad by Senate Majority PAC, the same outfit that disseminated ridiculous claims about North Carolina's tax reforms.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that fact checkers for The Washington Post, WRAL-TV, and FactCheck.org have all taken the Senate Majority PAC to task for its false attack ad against Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis, I've decided to intervene in the organization's defense.
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During her 2008 U.S. Senate campaign, Kay Hagan promised North Carolinians she would be a "moderate" and "independent" voice in Washington.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 8:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Although hostilities have been underway for some time, I hereby issue a formal Declaration of War against silly, uninformed talking points repeated endlessly in North Carolina politics.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Below are responses from real people across North Carolina describing how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is making health insurance far less affordable while often forcing them off their current plans.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 8:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It's getting pretty clear that Tea Party-affiliated groups and voters are warming up to Cary physician Greg Brannon and his campaign for the GOP nomination for US Senate.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 11:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Life, the old saying goes, is best thought of as a journey, not a destination. When it comes to reforming North Carolina's tax code, however, I'd say the reverse is true. The journey may have been messy over the past few months, as state lawmakers and policy analysts pitched and debated various...
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Life, the old saying goes, is best thought of as a journey, not a destination. When it comes to reforming North Carolina's tax code, however, I'd say the reverse...
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2013 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When is a sales-tax increase not really a sales-tax increase? If you want to make sense of the contrasting claims about tax reform in North Carolina, this is one...
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 2:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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