A Balanced Plan for Economic Growth
Within the timeframe of the budget biennium, the fiscal impact of tax reform would be between 1.4 percent and 2.4 percent of General Fund revenue. Apocalypse? Not.
Americans Saw Threat to Freedoms Before Scandals Came To Light
An April survey of likely 2014 voters found many worried about government violations of free speech and privacy rights.
Big Brother is calling
Governor Honors Corporate Welfare Queens
There is no sound reason to declare June “Solar Energy Month” in North Carolina.
What difference does it make?
House Raised Taxes? No Sale
About half of the apparent sales-tax increase in the House tax plan is not a sales-tax increase at all. It's just a reassignment of taxes already collected.
Privacy? What’s that?
Economic Stat Explains Political Debate
In order to have a meaningful conversation about how to address the state’s economic woes, there must be a shared set of facts.
At the IRS it’s “Gangland Style,” not “Gangnam Style”
Medicaid Monster Munches State Money
Cost overruns in the health care program mean less money is available for other government priorities.
CJ Editorial: Must Eugenics Victims Keep Waiting?
The 2013 General Assembly has an opportunity to offer tangible relief to the living victims of a shameful chapter of North Carolina history.