Health Care Winners and Losers
Politicians and bureaucrats continue behaving as if they can allocate health care resources better than consumers and providers in the marketplace.
The tension between "positive" and "negative" rights will grow more prevalent.
The impact on climate of these costly regulations would be so tiny, so close to zero, that it is not worth mentioning.
The president's new regulations would cut off an important avenue of advancement in the labor market, especially for workers who are just beginning their careers.
RALEIGH — The ongoing debate over subsidies for traditional versus renewable energy sources offers an incomplete picture. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report urges advocates on both sides of the debate to fill in the gaps by factoring in penalties along with subsidies. Energy subsidies include more than just direct government transfers and tax breaks, said study author Roy Cordato, JLF’s vice president for research and resident scholar.
Propagandists are using terms like "climate change" rather than "global warming" to confuse the public and drum up support for draconian regulations.
Government spending does not stimulate; it depresses. Government austerity and private-sector prosperity are complements, not substitutes.
The notion of sustainability is great for ideological banner waving but meaningless as a guide to enhance human welfare.
RALEIGH — The General Assembly's Joint Finance Committee on Tax Reform has focused almost exclusively on reforming North Carolina's sales tax. Primarily this has meant extending the current sales tax, which applies only to goods, to services including haircuts and lawn and automotive care.
A syndrome that afflicts many public officials, trying to ameliorate problems caused by government with yet more government, is evident in the regulation of North Carolina health facilities.
RALEIGH — A study released several weeks ago by an accounting firm and recently touted by North Carolina politicians as evidence of the state’s attractiveness to business is fundamentally flawed and offers little useful information to policymakers considering tax changes, according to a new report published today by the John Locke Foundation. Small businesses, Cordato wrote, are particularly affected by the taxes left out of the study, and account for about half of employment in North Carolina and have generated 80 percent of net job growth in recent years.