Corporate tax should be priority
Congress and the Biden administration seems determined to hike the federal government’s corporate-income tax. Let’s offset some of the inevitable economic damage in our own state.
During this time of reflection — civil war? — for the Republican Party, it makes sense to look abroad for models of how a right-of-center party might succeed in the 2020s. An obvious place is Britain. Conservatives are still in government there and, despite the coronavirus pandemic and an economic contraction unmatched since 1709, they...
The interplay of North Carolina's flat-rate income tax and standard deduction deserves more attention.
Individuals, governors, and other lawmakers must get tough with this stupefied notion that people can’t disagree about nuanced differences about election integrity or legislation in general.
A decade ago, North Carolina was on a trajectory to look more like New York or Illinois. We were economically stagnant with one of the worst business climates in the nation.
“If Catherine Truitt seeks to be seen as the state’s education leader, the route isn’t via reflexive partisan fealty,” the WRAL-TV editorialist snarled.
From the Declaration of Arbroath to the American Revolution, the Scottish heritage of freedom has had an ongoing impact on North Carolina.
Drone technology may be new, but the principles at stake are as old as the nation itself.