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Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Roy Cordato discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina lawmakers would harm, not help, the state’s economic…

Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Roy Cordato discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina’s new tax reforms help set the stage for…

This press release has been revised based on updated data. RALEIGH — Expiration of North Carolina’s temporary 1-cent sales tax and income tax surcharges, a cut in the corporate tax…

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s tax system needs radical reform to maximize prosperity and minimize harm to individual liberty. That’s the theme of the John Locke Foundation’s latest Macon Series…

North Carolina's system of taxation aggressively interferes with individual liberty and retards economic growth. Policymakers should begin to change the tax system.

Some state politicians are touting the results of an Ernst & Young study that purports to rank North Carolina’s business taxes as among the lowest in the nation. But this flawed study ignores basic principles of public-finance economics and most of the taxes that influence business decisions. More accurate studies that examine all relevant taxes and all types of businesses suggest that North Carolina’s tax rates are high in regional rankings, thus discouraging economic growth.

RALEIGH — A Spotlight published today by the John Locke Foundation used the term “socialism for capitalists” to describe a bill proposed by the Easley administration to offer new cash…