In a debate over class-size legislation, one NC legislator made a rather odd reference: When North Carolina lawmakers passed a bill last year that would make smaller classroom ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week
Bad Bill of the Week: Expansion of Government Control (Healthcare Edition)
Politics is about control. The more areas of society that are politicized, the more control the political class lords over its citizens. Everything from education, to healthcare, ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: Outlawing Employment
The laws of economics, much like gravity, are not subject to a vote. Nor do they change based upon popular opinion. Unfortunately, the sponsors of HB 1046, Constitutional ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: Central Planners Never Learn
With the economic collapse of the last decade brought on largely due to the bursting of the housing bubble, does anybody still think it a good idea for government to encourage ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: Welfare in the Tax Code
According to recent reports, the federal government administers 126 separate programs directed at low-income households. Many of these programs are administered in partnership with ... Keep Reading
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: 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
Doubling Down with Taxpayer Dollars
This week's Bad Bill of the Week focuses on a bill just approved by a Senate committee yesterday. Here is a sample: Gamblers on a losing streak often resort to desperately making ... Keep Reading
