To usher in a Marxist revolution and overthrow the capitalist system, Gramsci argued, first the communists had to take control of the cultural institutions and in turn dictate the prevailing ideology of society.
Whenever we could, we let the servers, clerks, attendants, small business owners, and others we encountered in our mutually beneficial transactions know that they were welcome to doff the cloth.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is siding for workers against the big businesses by denouncing forced masking policies.
A new N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation report shows Republican lawmakers scored an average of 91.95% on business-related decisions during the 2019 legislative session. Democrats averaged 57.9%, and the General Assembly as a whole averaged 77.15%. NCFREE based its 2019 ratings on 12 recorded Senate votes and 13 recorded House votes. The bills covered outdoor advertising...
RALEIGH — On the campaign trail in 2010, Republicans who wanted to take over the North Carolina General Assembly promised to help create jobs by pursuing policies friendlier to business. They won, and they’ve had a year to follow through on those promises. John Rustin, executive director of the N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation, recently rated the General Assembly on business-friendly measures. Rustin discussed the NCFEF ratings with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
It might be time to dump a philosophy endorsed by Benito Mussolini and Huey Long.
RALEIGH — North Carolina earns the dubious distinction this week of joining the Tax Foundation’s list of the top 10 states with the worst business tax climates. The John Locke Foundation’s top budget expert places much of the blame on recent sales-tax increases. Voters in 11 counties will decide Nov. 2 whether to raise sales-tax rates even higher.
Raising taxes on a company tends to reduce the wages of its employees rather than drain the bank accounts of coupon-clipping fatcats.
Did big business in North Carolina win or lose in the state budget battle of 2009?
It turns out that falls, not poisons or firearms, pose the most deadly risk to North Carolinians in home-based accidents. So will child-safety locks be required for stepladders?
Legislators who hope to attract new business should avoid rules that chase businesses away.
