Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation vice president for outreach, discusses a new “freedom test” lawmakers, voters, and taxpayers can apply to legislation under consideration in the 2015 N.C. General Assembly. Gray offered these comments during a Jan. 12, 2015, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
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