Budget, Taxation & Economy
Local debt means future taxes
A simple change to ballot language and another small change in ball could have huge impacts on local borrowing. Dan Way reported for Carolina Journal that “Debt fared better than…
1994 Oregon Ballot Measure 16
Budget, Taxation & Economy
We’re not alone in considering constitutional tax changes
Michael Tanner‘s latest column at National Review Online looks beyond the electoral contests that pit one set of candidates against another. Most of the attention so far has understandably been…
Liberty
Constitutional amendment re-write
Following the three judge panel ruling that the General Assembly could either take the two amendments in question off the ballot or re-write them, the General Assembly is coming back…
Liberty
Charlotte Observer: Will court challenges to constitutional amendments work?
Basically the Uptown Paper of Record concludes that court challenges to some of the proposed amendments to the state constitution will not pass legal muster: You might have noticed something…
Regulation
Report estimates lost jobs tied to minimum-wage hikes
Ali Meyer of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a new report that estimates the negative economic impact tied to proposed increases in the government-mandated minimum wage. Proposed minimum wage increases…
Elections & Public Integrity
Limiting politicians’ ability to spend other people’s money
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek highlights an interesting political development from the Left Coast. Dino Cortopassi, a farmer outside Stockton, Calif., watched as the Central Valley city loaded up…
Liberty
Leap before You Look
Now that BCRA has the media quaking, wondering what somebody might interpret to be unmentionable, we have headlines such as, “What Was NC’s Jury-Trial Ballot Amendment About?” I must confess,…
Liberty
Promising until they’re blue in the face
The truth about Guilford County’s proposed quarter-cent sales tax hike, which commissioners voted 7-2 to put on the ballot in November: The truth, however, is this: The current Board of…
Liberty
A Look At State Ballot Measures Across The U.S.
Stateline, a project of the Pew Center on the States, summarizes the measures that appear on next Tuesday’s ballot across the country. There are 174 of them and the include…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online about local ballot measures up for consideration in the November election. John Hood’s Daily Journal turns to history to help make the case…
Elections & Public Integrity
What you need to know about North Carolina’s constitutional amendment process
When voters head to the polls in May to vote on amending the N.C. Constitution on the issue of defining marriage, they won’t actually see the text of the proposed…
Liberty
Governments above the Law
Daren Bakst, Director of Legal and Regulatory Studies for the John Locke Foundation, has urged school systems and government agencies campaigning for tax increases on the current ballot to shut…