By: Jim Anthony and Donald Bryson In every state that has implemented Medicaid expansion, the costs have been substantially above projections. The expansion of Medicaid, a policy ... Keep Reading
Fiscal Policy
How to close the health insurance coverage gap
Uninsured individuals fall in the health insurance coverage gap if their income is too low to qualify for a subsidy on the federal exchange. Medicaid expansion proponents want ... Keep Reading
Cooper’s State of the State: new tone, same old big government ideas
Determined. That’s the word Gov. Roy Cooper used to describe the state of North Carolina. The speech highlighted much of what is good about North Carolina as well as the challenges ... Keep Reading
Your Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren are Paying for Medicaid Expansion
At a presidential campaign stop in Indiana in 1968, Robert Kennedy was asked by a medical student who was going to pay for his healthcare proposal for poor people? Kennedy famously ... Keep Reading
New Study Reveals How North Carolina Could Create 43,000 New Jobs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Open for Business New Civitas Study Finds that Eliminating the Corporate Income Tax Would be a Boon to the State Economy RALEIGH, N.C. – A newly-released ... Keep Reading
The Dangerous Assumptions Behind the Left’s Identity Politics
The NC Justice Center sees economic disparities between groups and assumes they derive from a “system” of discrimination There is no basis to the belief that --- absent racial ... Keep Reading
The Effects of Georgia’s 6 Percent Income Tax Cap
Critics of North Carolina’s proposed tax cap amendment are claiming the cap will have major negative repercussions for the state Such charges are not grounded in reality ... Keep Reading
The High Price of NC Democrats’ “Promises”
North Carolina Democrats have outlined election year “promises” in a new document, Our Carolina Promise Implementing the proposals would add nearly $5 billion to the state ... Keep Reading
7 Things I’d Do if I Wanted to Keep Poor People Poor
If I wanted to keep poor people poor, there are several government policies I would favor. Let's count them down. 1: An Expanding Welfare State For starters, I would advocate for ... Keep Reading
Lowering the tax cap and the public schools: The misinformation campaign continues
Article attempts to scare people into voting against the tax cap amendment Author gets even the most basic facts wrong Recommendation to “tax the rich” is based on faulty ... Keep Reading
