Opinion
The Ring-a-Ding-Ding Tax
As long as North Carolina and other states levy a retail sales tax on products such as music recordings, why not be consistent?
Opinion
Welcome Back, Cutters
Whether you like it or not, the 2009 budget debate will largely be about controlling costs, reducing redundancies, and ending some state programs.
Opinion
An Incentive To Block Tax Reform
One of the greatest impediments to economic development in North Carolina is the clout of the economic developers.
Opinion
Another Round In The Eternal Debate
RALEIGH – Consider yourself lucky – you’ve just been witness to momentous events likely to be the subject of spirited political and academic debate for many decades to come.
Opinion
A controlled press without the controls
What is the difference between a media controlled by the government and one that willingly does the government’s bidding without controls?
Opinion
Obama’s Stimulus Package: So Much For Change
Instead of change, it looks as if our new president's efforts to stimulate the economy rely on more of the same.
Opinion
The Real Mistakes Of The Bush Era
Critics are right to question the economic legacy of the now-ended Bush administration – but most of them are wrong about the specifics.
Opinion
Let’s Freeze This Cost-Cutting Measure
Tough economic times cause some local governments to trot out inefficient measures for trimming their budget fat.
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A Fiscal Reckoning, Without Protests
Government at all levels – federal, state, city, and county – has grown larger and more cumbersome than taxpayers can afford.
Opinion
Curl Up With A Timely Classic
Curl up and read Hazlitt. It’s an investment with a huge rate of return, and one that modern-day Keynesians can’t tax away from you.
Opinion
Time To Replace A Poor Measure
Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute has persuaded me that the federal government isn’t spending enough.
Opinion
Hayek on Meet the Press
American capitalism has had a good record of giving people a rising standard of living, so why have many intellectuals and even economists become skeptical about, or even hostile to capitalism? Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek discussed economic policy's intellectual attraction — an economy that you can (presumably) deliberately control — back in 1975 on Meet the Press ...
