Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, explains why North Carolina’s long-term employment growth would benefit from the end of temporary state taxes on income and sales. Cordato offered these comments in response to the release of the official state unemployment rate of 9.6 percent for October 2010.
JLF’s Roy Cordato says allowing temporary tax hikes to disappear would boost N.C. economy
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