North Carolina’s Debt Affordability Advisory Committee says the state should set aside $100 million a year to help the state pension systems remain solvent. A draft released Wednesday, Feb. 24, of the committee’s 2021 debt affordability study also calls for North Carolina to maintain its 4%…
Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow in fiscal studies, discusses the end of the N.C. General Assembly’s Program Evaluation Division. Learn more here: “Closing shop at PED.”…
A government watchdog criticized a plan by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners that could send $7 million to High Point to help pay for improvements around Truist Point ballpark, home of the High Point Rockers minor league baseball team. Now that the board has a…
Legislation introduced by Republican lawmakers would mandate recipients of unemployment benefits actively search for work, a requirement that hasn’t been in place since the pandemic began in March. Traditionally, unemployment benefits have been linked to a job-search requirement. But in a March 10 executive order, Gov. Roy Cooper waived that…
Editor’s note: This story was update at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24 to clarify language in the final paragraph. A former South Carolina congressman says it’s possible to get N.C. conservatives to back a carbon tax and other progressive climate change policies if the left uses…
Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation senior fellow in regulatory studies and research editor, discusses the link between targeted tax incentives and governors running for re-election. Learn more here: “Research finds incumbent governors release a flood of incentives during election years.”…
Free-market advocates in North Carolina are optimistic the relaxing of regulations in the state will help promote the growth of broadband and help close the digital divide. Jon Sanders, research editor and senior fellow, Regulatory Studies, at the John Locke Foundation, told the Taxpayers Protection…
States with lower overall tax rates tend to make less use of targeted incentives. Those states also happen to grow faster than the desperate high-tax states throwing huge incentive grants around.
As state lawmakers try to sort out when students can go back to school full time, members of the House are sponsoring a bill that would offer a voluntary summer school program for North Carolina students. House Republicans held a news conference Tuesday, Feb. 16, to…
Jonathan Williams, executive vice president of policy and chief economist at the American Legislative Exchange Council, calls North Carolina the “gold standard for pro-growth tax reform.” Learn more here: “North Carolina is the gold standard for pro-growth tax reform.”…
