As every person in North Carolina saw their tax bill increase last year, the State of NC was busy granting a tax break to a company owned by the world's 2nd richest man -- Warren ... Keep Reading
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Crickets
That's the only sound you will hear coming out of the left-wingers today as another NC based business decides to expand its operations in our neighbor to the south. According to ... Keep Reading
Site Selection Magazine Rebuttal (Again)
Once again the Governor's office and NC Department of Commerce feel the need to celebrate the state's ranking as most likely to give out corporate welfare by Site Selection ... Keep Reading
Dell to Cost Taxpayers an Additional $53 million
In what has to be seen as a somewhat bizarre and highly questionable decision, the NC DOT has decided to continue with its plans to expand a Winston-Salem road that leads to the ... Keep Reading
No Boeing for NC
Despite the wooing of Gov. Bev Perdue and the undoubted promise of hundreds of millions in incentives, Boeing has eliminated North Carolina from consideration on where to build its ... Keep Reading
Why Governments should not be involved in private business
The town of Carrboro has a program to lend money to businesses within the town. This is another example of government undertaking activities outside of what government should do. ... Keep Reading
Incentives = Craps?
Gambling is always more fun when you're using other people's money isn't it? Well, for Sen. David Hoyle (D-Gaston) playing a game of craps with your tax dollars is perfectly ... Keep Reading
“Green” Lessons to Be Learned
Today’s Washington Post profiles Governor Granholm (D) the first female governor of Michigan (elected in 2002) and her priority of bringing “green” jobs to her state. In 2006, ... Keep Reading
Incentives Failure
Like we couldn't see this one coming... Per the N&O: Dell plans to close its computer manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem by January, and lay off 905 employees. Dell ... Keep Reading
Cash for Refrigerators?
Looks like the next in the line of government economic engineering and payoff for labor unions will come in the form of a "Cash for Appliances" program set to launch this ... Keep Reading
