constitutional rule requiring that a state cannot spend more than its income
Rob Christensen, the venerable political reporter for the News & Observer, offers a future vision of North Carolina as Illinois, with out-of-control spending leading to failing government and bad credit. The…
Episode 12 of the official John Locke Foundation podcast, Head Locke, is out! You don’t want to miss Terry and Kory ask and discuss tough questions about our political institutions. According…
Christopher DeMuth offers National Review Online readers two ideas that would help address problems linked to our current state of polarized politics. [L]et me argue for two concrete institutional reforms.…
View in your browser. As the state continues to increase spending, many citizens have begun to suspect that the effectiveness of that spending is diminishing. North Carolina’s balanced budget amendment…
A measure to add North Carolina to the list of states seeking a compact for a federal balanced budget amendment is moving through the state House. Compact for America’s Nick…
Michael Tanner‘s latest column at National Review Online looks into leading national Republicans’ approach to massive federal debt. With our national debt now passing the $18 trillion mark, and rising…
During the 1970s and 1980s, America saw a growing federal deficit that caused states to react. North Carolina rewrote its constitution in 1971, and as part of that constitution the…
View in your browser. During the 1970s and 1980s, America saw a growing federal deficit that caused states to react. North Carolina rewrote its constitution in 1971, and as part…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the group Compact for America’s plan to fast-track a federal balanced-budget constitutional amendment. John Hood’s Daily Journal picks apart liberal commentators’ contradictory…
The Associated Press interviewed John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood for an article this holiday week about the impact of voter turnout on this year’s North Carolina election results. Publications…
Listeners of WTKF’s “Viewpoints Radio” learned this week about the latest developments in a controversy surrounding a revised Advanced Placement U.S. history class, along with the work of a state…
A day after Compact for America’s Nick Dranias outlined the group’s plan to pursue a streamlined path toward a federal balanced budget amendment, George Leef devotes his latest Forbes column…