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Cooper’s picked the wrong policy combo on corporate taxes and welfare

posted January 20, 2020 by Jon Sanders

How should the State of North Carolina go about corporate taxation and corporate welfare? There are four possible policy combinations. At the John Locke Foundation, we have consistently championed…
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Corporate Welfare Creates Headlines, Not Jobs as Promised

posted January 8, 2020 by Jon Sanders

WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes has examined job creation promises from North Carolina economic-development incentives programs and found them falling far, far short. Dukes assessed job creation from projects under the…
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Cooper Gives a Corporation $56 million Then Blasts Corporate Tax Cuts

posted July 10, 2019 by Jon Sanders

Gov. Roy Cooper opposes corporate tax cuts and giveaways. At least publicly. In his 2017 State of the State address, he made them sound like an occult ritual: “We…
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Media: Tax Cuts for Corporations OK for Amazon, Not Others

posted September 20, 2017 by Jon Sanders

Earlier this month Amazon announced it was looking for a second headquarters in North America. The company said it would involve 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment. It is…

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