The nonprofit Tax Foundation has released its State Business Tax Climate Index each year since 2003, distilling complicated tax environments into a simple and easy-to-understand ranking. The index is focused on how states generate…
Patrick Hauf of the Washington Free Beacon highlights another source of pressure for a high-profile Arizona senator. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) is facing pressure to oppose an international corporate…
Jonathan Williams of the American Legislative Exchange Council considers the link between American migration patterns and state tax policies. He summarizes his analysis for TheHill.com. With the 2020 census just…
New research continues to highlight the economic burdens imposed by big government regulations and big corporation cronyism in the US. For all the concerns about the heavy hand of Brussels…
The folks at the Tax Foundation just released their annual International Tax Competitiveness Index, giving conservatives and entrepreneurs new ammunition in their call to reform and streamline the U.S. tax…
North Carolina’s 2013 tax reform package helped boost the state’s economic competitiveness ranking from the middle of the pack to No. 4 in the country among the 50 states. That’s…
North Carolina voters like North Carolina’s recent tax reforms, according to new poll results Americans for Prosperity released (PDF) today. From AFP’s news release: Fifty-four (54) percent of likely voters…
Conservative icons such as Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and Milton Friedman would have appreciated some of the North Carolina General Assembly’s key accomplishments in 2013. That’s the assessment of John…
Grover C. Norquist and Patrick Gleason write in Reuters that close examination shows a vocal minority is overreacting to Republicans implementing the fiscal policies they ran on — and that…
It’s a question that crops up near the end of the News & Observer‘s brief report on North Carolina’s latest No. 1 ranking from Site Selection magazine (not posted online,…
If you were looking for another reason to support the types of education reform Terry Stoops has been touting for years, a Bloomberg Businessweek article about the presidential race might…
It is difficult to argue, with a straight face and without crossing fingers behind your back, that the tax climate in North Carolina is not a stumbling block to economic…