Editors at National Review Online offer congressional Republicans ideas for improving a major piece of legislation. The top priority of the Republicans’ tax bill should be making permanent as much…
Introduction The state government owns more than 132 million square feet of space across 11,700 buildings worth $40.9 billion. The state budget includes approximately $350 million per year to pay…
House budget would add nearly $2 billion in new spending over this year.
That’s a question many have been asking over the last three years that the federal government has been distributing money to schools. Since 2021 North Carolina has received about $6.2…
Anthony Hennen writes for the Martin Center about the latest example of universities engaging in questionable spending. Collegiate esports—competitive video gaming—has grown dramatically in recent years. Small private colleges and…
Richard Vedder writes for the Martin Center about universities’ attachment to expensive construction projects. According to one recent estimate, American colleges in the last few years, in a period of…
Antiplanner has a lengthy post answering this crucial question: Does transit capital spending boost ridership? Lots of statistics and graphs, but here’s the bottom line: The amount of money transit…
The North Carolina budget bill (House Bill 966) for fiscal years (FY) 2019-20 and 2020-21 is over a thousand pages of provisions and monetary line items describing how state government…
The House increases spending faster than the pace since 2011, and prepares for more demands next fiscal year in education and Medicaid, but Gov. Cooper expects much slower spending growth…
One of the most confusing things about the House budget is the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund (SCIF). It makes comparing the House plan with the Governor’s plan or with…
The State Capital and Infrastructure Fund is creating a load of confusion this budget season. The SCIF (pronounced “skiff”) was created in 2017 to wean the state from debt to…
While the House continues to work on its budget in committee and on the floor, we are analyzing what is in it. Spending would increase 3.1 percent the first year…