A letter from the head of a national tax reform group touts N.C. lawmakers’ “leadership in advancing pro-growth tax policies.” The letter from Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform calls for legislators to consider even more tax-related changes as they begin a new session.
Grover Norquist is using his considerable influence to push North Carolina lawmakers toward reforming restrictive laws governing craft beer. Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, is calling for an end to the state’s “protectionist, anti-consumer restriction on craft brewery self-distribution.” Norquist in 1985 founded ATR, which promotes a system in which taxes are simpler,...
RALEIGH — The unemployment insurance bill is the GOP-led effort to repay a $2.5 billion debt that was borrowed from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits during the Great Recession. Supporters say that if nothing is done, the state’s businesses will see federal surcharges mount on their tax bill until the debt is repaid, likely in 2019.
CHAPEL HILL — A trillion-dollar sequestration that immediately would cut large portions of domestic and military spending likely will be deferred until budget architects can put together a long-term fiscal plan in the new Congress, U.S. Rep. David Price said Monday.
RALEIGH — Dental service organizations provide back-end or nonclinical services to dentists who work with their business model. Those services include accounting, purchasing, billing and collection, and information technology. They also provide dental equipment.
DURHAM — Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of a congressional committee created through President Barack Obama’s executive order to address the nation’s fiscal hurdles, spread the blame evenly between the political parties for the country’s $15 trillion debt.
RALEIGH — American voters have elected a Democratic president who will work with larger Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate in 2009. John Gizzi, who has covered Washington politics for Human Events since 1979, recently discussed the likely political and policy implications with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — On average, North Carolinians had the 14th-highest amount of tax increases per capita among all states during the past seven years, Americans for Tax Reform says in its recently released annual Cost of Government Day report.
RALEIGH — Welcome to a new feature of Carolina Journal Online, the Friday Interview. Carolina Journal Radio’s Donna Martinez recently discussed some important issues with Grover Norquist, president of the Washington D.C.-based organization, Americans for Tax Reform. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
