Liberty
Making a predetermined outcome sound like real economics
Whether jobs are created or destroyed, they always say it's good for 'economic impact,' and media buy it.
CSX Transportation
railway system in the United States of America
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The CSX Hub should offer a warning
At the John Locke Foundation, we’ve been keeping an eye on the proposed CSX Intermodal Terminal planned for Rocky Mount for the past couple years. Carolina Journal has been reporting…
Transportation
State Has Spent More Than $4 Million, But Is CSX Rail Hub Still On?
Carolina Journal provides us an update on the Carolina Connector project in Edgecombe County. While state officials say they are not aware that CSX has changed its plans to build…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Interim Committee Notes: Joint Legislative Economic Development and Global Engagement Oversight Committee (EDGE)
The EDGE Committee met on Thursday, November 2nd. The purpose of this committee is to “examine, on a continuing basis, economic development and global engagement issues and strategies in North…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The problem with subsidies
There are lots of questions swirling around about the CSX Intermodal Rail Hub, which was supposed to be coming to Rocky Mount and receiving $100 million in subsidies from North…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Report: CSX Rocky Mount Project Dead
Rick Henderson reports for Carolina Journal on the CSX Rocky Mount project: Train News Wire, a railroad industry trade publication, reported Thursday the Carolina Connector project, a $272-million intermodal rail…
Liberty
The N&O editors actually wrote this
I gave it several hours in case someone pranked the poor guys, but it appears that the editors of The News & Observer actually editorialized against using state incentives to…
Education
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
North Carolina taxpayers are promising about $700,000 in subsidies for every new job a CSX transportation hub is expected to bring to Edgecombe County. Rick Henderson dissects the $100 million…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online that an incentives package for a new CSX transit hub in Edgecombe County amounts to $700,000 per new job promised. John Hood’s Daily…
Liberty
It’s not ‘job creation’ to kill jobs in one state industry to move them to another state industry
Why that's not screamingly obvious to everyone, including media, is a mystery to me. But the whole of economic incentives for a company or industry — i.e., corporate welfare or…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on CSX’s controversial search for a proposed rail hub site in Johnston County. John Hood’s Daily Journal rebuts a false narrative about N.C.…
Liberty
Green schools scrutinized, Medicaid’s human costs, eminent domain abuse, and more
A new report for the John Locke Foundation demonstrates that so-called “green” school buildings fail to fulfill their promises of cutting energy costs and boosting energy efficiency. The Raleigh News…