A tacit rule of blogging: give your opposition credit where it's due. Rob Schofield deserves credit for at least questioning the kinds of horsetrading, rent-seeking, and corporate ... Keep Reading
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Renewables & Rent-Seeking
Tapping into alarmist rhetoric on climate change and peak oil, bureaucrats at all levels of gov't are using this so-called crisis to their political advantage. Of course, this type ... Keep Reading
Shocking: Bootleggers & Baptists on NPR
OK, so NPR almost explained Bruce Yandle's Bootleggers & Baptist theory of political economy on NPR (near the end of the piece). Almost is good for hand grenades, right? If ... Keep Reading
Fairtax?
Is NC Policy Watch arguing for the Fairtax? ... Keep Reading
Talk about Bad Timing
As we bake through a week of 90 degree temperatures, and as just about the entire state is gripped by a moderate drought, is it really the time to be discussing using taxpayer ... Keep Reading
Eminent Domain Legislation : It’s About Time
Our reluctant legislature is making overtures about finally protecting us from improper - and unconstitutional - applications of eminent domain. Protecting private property should ... Keep Reading
A Kiwi Lesson for N.C. and the U.S.
North Carolina has been making a painstaking transition away from agriculture and textiles for years. Out of concern for depressed parts of the state and due to our own nostalgia, ... Keep Reading
Gub’ment Bitness: Oxy Moronic
Here's another reason why government shouldn't be in the business of, well, anything. Government's don't have profit motives, which is why municiple wifi may sound great at the ... Keep Reading
Corporate Welfare Meets Central Planning
(Almost) to the delight of this congenital right-winger, I'd at first thought the "report card" over at NC Policy Watch was going to end as strongly as it started: The ... Keep Reading
N.C. Budget Roundup
For a roundup of Civitas policy briefs on the N.C. state budget, visit here. ... Keep Reading
