Health Care
Freeing up NC’s nurses would increase healthcare access
North Carolina is one of just 13 states placing this unnecessary requirement on nurse practitioners.
Certified Public Accountant
title of qualified accountants in many countries
Education
NC and school choice: It’s been a long road.
School choice in North Carolina is flourishing. Today more than 370,000 students attend charter, private or home schools in the Tar Heel State. That’s works out to about 1 in…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Treasurer Folwell extends SHP deadline
The second most contentious health care issue in North Carolina this year behind Medicaid expansion is the proposed changes to the State Health Plan. The State Treasurer Dale Folwell and…
Regulation
Regulation as ‘elite war on common folk’
Jack Doll explains at the Federalist website why regulation often ends up benefiting elites at the expense of everyone else. Regulation creates unforeseen issues, which are papered over by more…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
More than a century of federal income tax
Former Forbes editor William Baldwin uses the occasion of the magazine’s 100th anniversary to ponder another fixture of American life over the past century: the federal income tax. It was…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
IRS targeting the little guy
Ali Meyer of the Washington Free Beacon highlights recent testimony about the Internal Revenue Services’ priorities for audits. The IRS disproportionately targets small companies for audits, burdening them with extra…
Liberty
Ensure Everybody but Yourself Drinks Responsibly
So, I’m out of town for a funeral. I skipped the seven-hour commissioners’ meeting so I could get the boss’ taxes ready for the CPA and file the briefs I…
Liberty
Time for a Vacation?
In a conversation yesterday, I shared my realization that the truth was on trial these days. It’s a far cry from thirty years ago when allegations would be measured against…
Liberty
Further sullying Gboro’s civil rights museum
International Civil Rights Center and Museum chief financial officer and interim president John Swaine is not a certified public accountant in North Carolina: In 2008, the N.C. State Board of…
Liberty
Our Side Is Cheating
The ACLU would probably frown upon use of an intelligence test to qualify voters. Hendersonville City Council, however, elected to permanently install instant-runoff voting. Some have argued the two pages…
Liberty
Who’s Afraid of a Big, Bad Auditor?
One must wonder what kinds of funny money games higher-ups in state government are playing. Over the weekend, news was released about a “stolen police report.” It pertained to the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Borders explains why you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for a flat tax
The latest edition of Max Borders‘ Ideas Matter update tackles the tax code. If you think we could soon have a flat tax, you’re kidding yourself. Do you know how…