Americans for Proseperity has released a nice agenda for North Carolina:
•Passage of the state budget without tax increases;
•Lower overall tax burden in North Carolina;
•Support for Constitutional Spending Limits that could include: Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR) that would limit government spending to the increase in population and inflation and/or legislative supermajority requirement to raise taxes;
•Keeping North Carolina as a “Right-to-work State,” by implementing it into the state constitution along with the state’s ban on public employee collective bargaining;
•Dedicating all North Carolina Education Lottery revenue to school construction; or support ending all state-run gambling;
•Elimination of North Carolina’s Estate Tax – also called the “Death Tax”;
•Promotion of legislation that allows for the exploration and production of North Carolina’s energy resources;
•Advocating a “rollback” of North Carolina’s Renewable Portfolio Standard;
•Blocking the creation of a North Carolina Healthcare Exchange;
•Allowing the purchase of health insurance from any state;
•Passage of legislation to get the state of North Carolina out of the liquor business;
•Ending all “welfare for politicians,” known as taxpayer-funded elections;
•Protecting free and political speech rights by deregulating campaign speech;
•Ending the Golden Leaf Foundation;
•Converting the Tax Credit for Children with Disabilities into a refundable tax credit;
•Increasing the number of non-public school choice options available to parents;
•Repeal of the corporate income tax and elimination of all corporate welfare;
•Simplifying and lowering individual income taxes;
•Promoting the elimination of redundant committees and commissions in order to shrink the size of government in North Carolina;
•Expanding recently passed tort reforms, including “loser pays”; and
•In general, greatly reducing the regulatory burden on businesses and citizens.
