North Carolina is the first state to lose a voter photo ID case and the Republicans in the state legislature were the deciding factor. Late last week, out of nowhere, ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week
Bad Bill of the Week: Student ID Bill Would Threaten Reforms
Liberal/progressive legislators look to add yet another official form of identification to the already lengthy list of acceptable voter photo IDs with HB 240. This bill would amend ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: Government Force Interjected Into Work Agreements
Big government “progressives” love telling other people what to do (and spending other people’s money). It’s all about control, as a central tenet of progressivism is a strong ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: Imposing Absurd Levels of Micromanagement on School Meals
This week’s Bad Bill of the Week features the resurrection of a Bad Bill feature from two years ago. House Bill 609, The Healthy and High Performing Schools Act, is sponsored by ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: 10 Reasons the House Budget is a Bad Bill
Late last week the North Carolina House passed its FY 2015-17 budget proposal. The spending plan would appropriate $22.16 billion in the coming year, an increase of 6.3 percent ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: Increasing Fees on Barbers
North Carolina requires occupational licensing for more than 700 professions, which generates an absurd amount of bureaucracy and red tape. Occupational licensing forces people to ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: A Second Helping of Pork
Two months ago, we featured as a Bad Bill of the Week HB 245, which was a bill that would funnel state taxpayer funds to a local children’s museum in the bill sponsor’s ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: Taxpayer-Funded Political Campaigns
Would it be okay if citizens were forced to vote for a candidate against their will? Of course not. So why do certain NC legislators think it okay to force citizens to ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: More Government Meddling in the Workplace
In a free society, employers and employees voluntarily agree to the terms of their relationship. Unfortunately, government has for generations forcibly inserted itself into that ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: Statewide Forced Busing
Five years ago, in response to a groundswell of parental complaints, Wake County schools finally ended its long-running policy of forced busing. Wake had long been one of a few ... Keep Reading
