If you go check out Forbes' List of the Best Places for Business and Careers, what you will find will largely be a slideshow of silver skyscrapers. Four of these top twenty-five ... Keep Reading
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The Bogus Nature of Corporate Welfare “Job Creation” Claims
Today's Fayetteville Observer includes my article on the faulty methodology used by our state's Dep't of Commerce to tout "new job creation" resulting from corporate welfare ... Keep Reading
Another Bubble Waiting to Burst
Despite Rep. Tom Murry's (R-Wake) open acknowledgement of Civitas's Bad Bill of the Week article about HB 1149 (New Market Jobs Act), he turned a blind eye to reason and espoused ... Keep Reading
N&O Fact Checker Observes Only Half the Story
The N&O fact checks a claim made by Walter Dalton in the recent Democratic gubernatorial debate regarding job creation numbers resulting from a corporate welfare economic ... Keep Reading
Gov. Perdue’s Twisted Tax Priorities
New at the Civitas Institute's website is an article contrasting Gov. Perdue's attitude toward taxing Hollywood millionaires and working class North Carolinians. A sample: Picture ... Keep Reading
Gov. Perdue Favors Hollywood Millionaires Over Struggling North Carolinians
Per this N&O article, North Carolina doled out perhaps an all-time high in tax breaks to Hollywood movie studios. That's right, while Gov. Perdue was arguing to raise the sales ... Keep Reading
Corporate Welfare Lawyer Flip-Flops on Handouts – In the Same Article
A corporate welfare agent pens this article in the N&O discussing ways North Carolina could improve its business climate. He includes some sound advice in this paragraph: If ... Keep Reading
North Carolina falls flat in new small business ranking
North Carolina has been named a state with one of the "most anti-entrepreneur policy environments" in a new report released by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council. Out ... Keep Reading
Peeling Back the Chiquita Deal
By now most of you have heard about Gov. Perdue's latest corporate welfare bribe economic incentives deal with Chiquita to come to Charlotte. North Carolina taxpayers may be ... Keep Reading
Economic Incentives: End Them, Don’t Mend Them
In this article, N&O editors decry the current state of North Carolina's "economic incentives" programs. Right now, those policies, intended to attract or retain job-creating ... Keep Reading
