Category: Taxes and Budget

• Locke’s Joseph Coletti discusses shutdown of N.C. legislative watchdog group

  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.”…

  by Joseph Coletti
• GOP-led legislature made sure we saved for this rainy day

  North Carolina now consistently ranks among the best states in which to do business.

  by Dean Arp
• ALEC’s Jonathan Williams labels North Carolina the ‘gold standard for pro-growth tax reform’

  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.”…

• Locke’s Joseph Coletti analyzes N.C. consensus revenue forecast

  Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow for fiscal policy, discusses North Carolina’s consensus revenue forecast unveiled in February 2021. Learn more here: “Consensus revenue forecast.”…

  by Joseph Coletti
• New and familiar faces at N.C. General Assembly. Here’s the Senate:

  Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly — 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House. We look at where they’ve been, what they’re doing now, and what we might expect them to do as lawmakers.  The…

  by Julie Havlak, John Trump
• Locke’s Joseph Coletti analyzes Gov. Cooper’s COVID-19 budget recommendations

  Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, discusses Gov. Roy Cooper’s latest COVID-19 relief budget priorities.

  by Joseph Coletti
• General Assembly passes bill providing billions in COVID aid; Cooper wants more

  The N.C. General Assembly passed a bill Thursday, Feb. 4,  that provides more than $2 billion in COVID aid across the state, most of it to public schools. The bill now heads to Gov. Roy Cooper, who held a press conference…

  by Andrew Dunn
• Harrington, known for her no-nonsense approach, Senate’s first female majority leader

  Sen. Kathy Harrington, R-Gaston, doesn’t seem impressed at becoming the first female majority leader of the N.C. Senate. She is one of the most powerful lawmakers in Raleigh. She sports a concealed-carry permit, and her daughter is a law enforcement officer. She listens more than she…

  by Julie Havlak
• N.C. overpaid more than $69 million in unemployment benefits last year

  In yet another sign of turmoil at the N.C. Division of Employment Security, officials announced this week the division overpaid more than $69 million in unemployment benefits last year.  The pandemic causes a sharp spike in claims in 2020, with nearly a third of workers filing…

  by Johnny Kampis
• Locke’s Joseph Coletti counters misleading claim about N.C. public health funding

  Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, discusses a misleading News & Observer report about funding for local health departments in North Carolina. Learn more here: “Public health budgets.”…

  by Joseph Coletti