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Another Way to Cut Taxes
Overregulation is particularly damaging to small businesses, which lack the scale to shoulder compliance costs that large firms possess.
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Medical Care Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive
As health insurance is becoming more expensive, some basic health care is curiously becoming more affordable because an increasing number of primary care physicians are breaking away from the status quo.
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No Lives Matter
Opinion
Government Gets Poor Data
If we want to combat the remaining problems of chronic poverty successfully, we have to recognize what has already occurred, thanks both to economic growth and to past reforms.
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Media Have No Independent Standards
If corruption occurs, it shouldn’t matter whether the perpetrator is Republican, Democrat, or Socialist.
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A safe place
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Charlotte Hipsters Make Their Demands
If millennials continue having trouble making the transition from renters to homeowners, urban politics in North Carolina may start taking odd twists and turns.
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More Renewable Subsidies Need To Go
Allowing a 35 percent state tax credit to sunset marks a good start.
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Honoring N.C. Military Personnel and Veterans
Today marks a good time to reflect on the vital role the U.S. military and its veterans play in the Tar Heel State.
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Restraint Cuts Borrowing Costs
States with strong public-employee unions — measured as membership rates, collective-bargaining rights, and the presence or absence of right-to-work laws — tended to have higher-cost debt.
