Debt only delays what’s due
Forget the fanciful notion that politicians can make “the wealthy” pay the bill for COVID-19. You can steal every penny from the mega-rich and not get anywhere close to the total.
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Statewide lockdowns unnecessarily divide, divert us from task at hand
In North Carolina and across the country, Americans have coalesced into two angry factions based on how they feel about statewide lockdown orders like the one that Gov. Roy Cooper imposed on North Carolinians last month. Those who support the orders and want them extended claim they are saving lives.
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Supreme Court candidate stakes clear position against DNA tests for those who plead guilty
The N.C. Appeals Court leaves the door open for DNA testing to help those who previously pleaded guilty to crimes. One judge would close that door.
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Radical takes on pandemic are faulty
As of late April, Spain had 510 reported COVID-19 deaths for every million residents. Italy (453) and France (362) also fared poorly. The rate for the much-maligned U.S. was much lower, at 177 per million.
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Fitness center owner wants to open, protect his clients, but state says no
Steve Pinkerton is a business owner who now does little business. He isn’t unique because of that, and he gets it. This pandemic and the ensuing shutdowns and lockdowns have taken much. Pinkerton owns Vitality Fitness in Concord, in a 50,000-square-foot facility he…
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Cooper plan reopens too slowly
Cooper’s reopening plan is wholly inadequate to the moment we face — a moment of crisis for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians.
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Trusting healthy North Carolinians to choose about reopening our economy
The professional left’s work-equals-death argument is an irresponsible misrepresentation of the movement to reopen North Carolina’s economy, which has been devastated by state and local government mandated shutdowns and the resulting job losses and business closures. The argument implies a profound lack…
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Reopen N.C.: Four proposals for lifting tax burdens on workers and business
North Carolina’s economy has been devastated by the decisions of Gov. Roy Cooper and state and local officials in their attempt to ameliorate the effects of COVID-19. To enforce social distancing rules, politicians outlawed a number of occupations and businesses. Included in these restrictions are restaurants and restaurant workers, beauty…
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Leaders must offer more clarity
A new study forecasts a massive 11% decline in real economic output by the fourth quarter of 2020, and if anything that understates the damage likely to be wrought by the Great Suppression.
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Data-driven decisions about COVID-19 require useful data
Government briefings and news reports during the COVID-19 pandemic tend to lead with two statistics: the number of confirmed cases and the number of deaths. Both numbers are important. But it strikes this observer that neither of these data points offers the public a good sense of the pandemic’s severity.