This series, entitled “Cut This, Go Home,” includes several budget items that should no longer receive taxpayer funding because they fall well outside the legitimate, core ... Keep Reading
Fiscal Policy
Cut This, Go Home
Civitas is providing a series of recommendations for how to trim the state budget so that legislators can come to an agreement and go home. To access these articles, CLICK HERE ... Keep Reading
Cut This, Go Home: Eliminate Targeted Tax Credits, Film Subsidy
This series, entitled “Cut This, Go Home,” includes several budget items that should no longer receive taxpayer funding because they fall well outside the legitimate, core ... Keep Reading
Cut This, Go Home: Reducing TA’s in Favor of Smaller Classes Is a Wise Investment
This series, entitled “Cut This, Go Home,” includes several budget items that should no longer receive taxpayer funding because they fall well outside the legitimate, core ... Keep Reading
Cut This, Go Home: Taxpayer Funding for Moral Monday Activist Group
As budget negotiations for the long-overdue 2015 North Carolina state budget continue, the Civitas Institute would like to remind legislators and taxpayers about opportunities to ... Keep Reading
Cut This, Go Home: Biotech Center
Recommendations for the 2015 Budget Negotiations As budget negotiations for the long-overdue 2015 North Carolina state budget continue, the Civitas Institute would like to ... Keep Reading
Civitas Poll: Voters Want Tax Protection
A new Civitas Poll of registered, unaffiliated North Carolina voters shows that an overwhelming majority of North Carolina Unaffiliated voters support an amendment to the North ... Keep Reading
School Choice: Benefits Are More than Academic
Many of the controversies roiling public education are traceable to a system that assigns students to schools based on where they live. One North Carolina community that is working ... Keep Reading
Spending Binges Underlie Budget Woes
As the nation’s sub-par economic recovery continues, tax revenues to state coffers are not rising as rapidly as in past periods of robust economic growth. Some left-leaning groups ... Keep Reading
A Taxpayer Protection Act for North Carolina: Examining Misleading Claims about Colorado’s TABOR Experience
NOTE: This week the NC Senate approved a Taxpayer Protection Act that would enact restraints on the annual growth rate of the state budget. (For more on the legislation, go to NC ... Keep Reading
