Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation fiscal and health care policy analyst, compares his use of federal bailout money in the JLF Back to Basics budget plan with Gov. Beverly Perdue’s use of the bailout money in her budget proposal. Coletti delivered these remarks as part of a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society April 6, 2009. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
Opinion
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...