Medicaid expansion advocates claim the state’s healthcare industry will expand in response to greater demand from expansion Evidence from other states tells us otherwise ... Keep Reading
Debunking Those Medicaid Expansion Job Claims
On the first day of the regular 2019 legislative session, Democrats introduced legislation to expand Medicaid in North Carolina. Among the justifications for expansion given at the ... Keep Reading
Liberal recommendations from NC Justice Center would make recession worse
The Left-Wing NC Justice Center’s latest policy brief includes policy recommendations in preparation of the next recession Policies are more of the same big-government programs ... Keep Reading
Cooper would be wrong to reverse corporate tax cuts
Cooper is likely to call for an increase of NC’s corporate tax Corporate taxes, however, harm workers though job loss and declining wages State legislators should work toward ... Keep Reading
Alternatives to Medicaid Expansion
Expanding Medicaid would be a disaster for North Carolina But just stopping expansion is not enough, we must offer alternatives There are several other measures NC ... Keep Reading
Two Charts NC Progressives Don’t Want You to See
• The state’s General Fund gets most of the attention, but doesn’t tell the whole story • Total state spending has increased nearly four-fold since 1984 – even after adjusting for ... Keep Reading
Aging Population and Growing Liabilities to Cause Fiscal Tsunami
There is a significant demographic change occurring in North Carolina that virtually no one is talking about. A change that will have major implications for the state’s fiscal ... Keep Reading
Why Should Taxpayers Forego More Important Financial Priorities to Fund Government Pork?
Tax increases force taxpayers to forego household financial priorities of increasing importance to them Meanwhile, the additional revenue funds political priorities of ... Keep Reading
The Self-Sufficiency Canard
Protectionists claim we should build everything in the U.S. This will create jobs and grow the economy, they profess But you wouldn’t cut yourself off from others, why should a ... Keep Reading
Central Planning: The True Economic Chaos
How an economy deals with scarcity is the key to society’s well-being The debate of our times is whether one central plan or many individual plans should coordinate the ... Keep Reading
