Corporate welfare is the real problem, not tax cuts
Legislators should maintain the plan to eliminate the corporate income tax in 2030 and begin to phase out programs that provide corporate welfare.
North Carolina farmers are among the nation’s most-frequent users of H-2A visas, accounting for about 7% of our total agricultural workforce.
We should use words in ways that are understandable and fair. Do we talk past each other because we use different language, even when we all use English?
Finding ways to encourage more ADUs would be a major boost to tackling housing affordability and accessibility in NC.
In claiming this newfound jurisdiction, NCDCM was, with just a mere interpretation, rendering hundreds and possibly thousands of previously unregulated and otherwise perfectly beneficial acres of land, useless to any activity outside of agriculture and forestry.
The NC House is currently considering HB 560, which would make clear in statute that raising a child in accordance with their biological sex, even if that child objects, is not abuse justifying state intervention.
Americans should ask: Are we still a people who believe freedom is worth sacrifice? Do we still see leadership as service, not dominion? Are we still a nation capable of moral resolve?
This swipe-fee scheme might sound sweet, but it’s likely to end in regret for NC consumers and small businesses.
In a 2024 poll of NC voters, more than 80% of Democrats and Republicans said that it is more compassionate for homeless people to sleep in designated camping areas than to be left to sleep on the street.