Perhaps the biggest task facing a Republican-controlled General Assembly when it returns from a two-week hiatus Wednesday is finding common ground with a new Democratic governor, and vice versa. That’s a significant challenge, considering the contentious nature of last year’s special sessions and the flurry of lawsuits that followed. Lawmakers…
Lawsuits. Veto threats. Power grabs. Protests. My rights, his rights. No one’s right. What a way to end 2016. Recovering from one of most contentious elections and a special session of the General Assembly tarnished by constitutional challenges, most North Carolinians are left asking, can’t we all just get…
Regardless of the election results, on Wednesday all of us at the John Locke Foundation will come to work with the same goal we’ve had since the doors opened in 1990: Restraining government to its core, constitutional functions and enacting policies that expand freedom and opportunity for North Carolinians. Here…
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation vice president for outreach, answers host Tom Campbell’s question about the impact of recent N.C. tax reforms. This exchange took place during the Jan. 24, 2016, episode of N.C. Spin.
Dr. Stephen Walters, professor of economics at Loyola University in Maryland, discusses one way to improve flagging urban cores. Walters offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 661).
Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, explains why North Carolina should repeal its tax on capital gains. Cordato offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 656).
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation vice president for outreach, assesses the political left’s critique of North Carolina’s recent tax reform measures. Gray offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 655).
Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, explains how North Carolina could improve its tax code by replacing depreciation with “expensing.” Cordato offered these comments in connection with the report More To Do On Tax Reform: Changing how business expenses are deducted.
Brandon Arnold, executive vice president of the National Taxpayers Union, assesses the likelihood of federal tax reform in 2016. Arnold offered these comments during a Nov. 16, 2015, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
Jonathan Williams, vice president for the Center for State Fiscal Reform at the American Legislative Exchange Council, discusses the impact of North Carolina’s tax reforms on the state’s ranking in ALEC’s “Rich States, Poor States” report. Williams offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 647).
