Government shouldn’t set prices
The reason most industries with lesser-skilled workers don’t already pay $15 an hour is that they see details the politicians and political activists can’t see.
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Archive: Daily Journal
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Users should pay for highways
During the 1920s, North Carolina’s paved road mileage exploded by 92%. The commercial and social life of our state was radically transformed.
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Cutting corporate tax helps consumers
Phasing out North Carolina’s corporate income tax over the next few years will generate economic benefits far greater than the apparent fiscal cost.
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Carolinians remain fiscal conservatives
When it comes to managing North Carolina’s finances, the conservatives in charge of the legislature are in tune with prevailing public sentiment.
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Crisis hastened health-care reforms
Improving access to health care is about more than who pays the bill. It’s about the size of that bill, and who possesses the information and the incentives to make decisions about it.
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Unemployment news isn’t so rosy
A job-placement bonus is a reasonable response, especially as an alternative to a more-foolish expenditure of North Carolina’s federal funds.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones wasn’t canceled
That Hannah-Jones didn’t receive immediate tenure, and will instead be evaluated according to her future classroom performance, is no outrage.
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Still room to improve on regs
Economic growth isn’t driven primarily by existing companies getting a little more productive. It’s driven by innovators with new, sometimes disruptive, ideas.
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Fred Barnes taught me a lesson
The work of Fred Barnes should teach an indispensable lesson: opinion journalism isn’t primarily about the opinions. It’s about the journalism.
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Enforce rules to ease labor shortage
North Carolina is among the states already taking steps to tighten the rules and shut off payments to workers who refuse to accept job offers. It’s good news that the Biden administration won’t stand in the way.