• John Locke Update

    Restore the SALT deduction

    posted January 30, 2020 by Dr. Roy Cordato
    In the shadow of their impeachment vote last month, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on and passed a bill that got few headlines, primarily because it will likely go…
  • John Locke Update

    How Do Tax Cuts Spur Economic Growth?

    posted September 17, 2019 by Dr. Roy Cordato
    It is widely believed, with plenty of evidence to support the hypothesis, that tax cuts spur economic growth. Over the past six decades, tax cut legislation has been implemented by…
  • John Locke Update

    Tax Fairness and the North Carolina Constitution

    posted April 26, 2018 by Dr. Roy Cordato
    When it comes to debates over tax reform or tax cuts (rarely for tax increases), it is quite typical for questions of fairness and justice to be part of the…
  • John Locke Update

    Recent Federal Tax Reforms: Good Enough? Fair Enough?

    posted April 19, 2018 by Dr. Roy Cordato
    The following is the transcript of a talk given on April 16, 2018 at Western Carolina University for WCU’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise: In any discussion of…
  • John Locke Update

    How to Make North Carolina’s Capital Gains Tax Fairer

    posted March 22, 2018 by Dr. Roy Cordato
    On many different occasions, I have argued that, from an economics perspective, North Carolina should abolish its tax on capital gains. But leaving economic analysis aside, assuming that…
  • John Locke Update

    What Claims Does Government Have to Your Money?

    posted October 19, 2017 by Joseph Coletti
    Roy Cordato, my colleague here at the John Locke Foundation, last week said it would be immoral to eliminate the federal deduction on income and property taxes paid to…

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