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Guess who’s singing lead?
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Parties differ on government’s scope
There are many specific issues, concerns, programs, and personalities that divide the parties, but they mainly reflect a fundamental difference of opinion about what government is and what it ought to do.
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Trade is always and everywhere reciprocal
There is a puzzling expression regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, describes a major goal of their protectionist trade policies: “reciprocal trade.” The expression is troubling because, as an economist, I understand that all trade, by definition, is reciprocal. It is best to think of a trade as simply two parties...
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Bumper-sticker politics
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Key argument against constitutional amendment assumes large future tax hikes
If there’s a universe in which lowering the cap on North Carolina’s income tax rate amounts to a “tax cut only for the wealthy,” our universe’s rules of mathematics — and language — must not apply. In this universe, a proposed constitutional amendment lowering the maximum state income tax rate from 10 percent to 7...
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She stabbed me in the front
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Protect the president!
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It’s not all Charlotte and Raleigh
Our two most-populous counties are responsible for a disproportionate share of North Carolina’s recent economic gains — but other counties, small and large, are also experiencing robust growth.
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Paper or plastic?
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De-strawed customers are ‘distrawght’
In the “summer of plastic straw bans,” North Carolina’s restaurant industry is feeling the heat. “Drunk people, they are walking around without straws and they are confused,” Hibernian Assistant General Manager Susan Kemben said. After a video of scientists pulling a bloody straw from a sea turtle’s nose went viral, plastic straws, once a ubiquitous...
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