North Carolina’s approach to economic development policy has failed, with the state’s high tax burden, lack of industrial diversity, and hostility to entrepreneurial effort contributing to a painful decline in employment and competitiveness. Public policymakers should rethink their reliance on central-planning models and schemes to subsidize specific businesses or regions. Instead, the state should lower taxes and avoid costly regulatory mistakes like the “Clean Smokestacks” bill.
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Budget, Taxation, and the Economy
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Education
- Apprenticeships
- Charter Schools
- Child Care
- Childhood Health and Nutrition
- Class Size
- Common Core State Standards
- Education and the Workforce
- Education Facilities
- Federal Education Policy
- Higher Education Funding
- North Carolina Education Lottery
- Prekindergarten Education
- Public School Finance
- School Choice
- Standards and Curricula
- Teaching Profession
- Testing and Accountability
- Virtual Schools
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Government Regulation
- Alcohol Policy
- Asset Forfeiture
- Connectivity and Broadband
- Convention and Event Centers
- Criminal Law Reform
- Electricity and Energy
- Emerging Ideas and the Sharing Economy
- Eminent Domain
- Government Accountability
- Occupational Licensing
- Public Transit
- Publicly Funded Stadiums
- Red Tape and Regulatory Reform
- Transportation Planning
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Health Care
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