You’d think government bureaucrats would understand that restaurants can’t operate without staff. You’d think government bureaucrats would understand that when you subsidize something, you get more of it. You’d think…
More than 80 police officers have left the Asheville police force since January 2020, so a few days ago, the city announced that Asheville residents are on their own when…
Lackluster sales of electric vehicles are pushing at least one city to add yet another incentive to get people to buy them. The new idea is to give dealerships incentives…
The Washington Examiner editorial board explores the role of federal price controls in the recent United Airlines scandal. … United had a full flight and needed two seats for employees,…
It’s likely by now you’ve heard about United Airlines forcibly ejecting a passenger from a flight. The flight was overbooked, there weren’t enough volunteers to stay behind, so a computer…
The Charlotte Observer ran a story today under the headline “North Carolina legislators want to pay themselves more.” There are all sorts of problems with this, but let’s start with the…
Between FY 2009 and FY 2014, 81 out of North Carolina’s 100 counties participated in economic development activities. Counties entered into 776 contracts worth nearly $284 million in incentives over…
Briefly perusing the upcoming Asheville City Council meeting agenda, one sees two considerations of land use incentive grants and two for economic development incentives. And thus we see how progressivism…
A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has reconfirmed the first premise of economic science–people respond to incentives. In this case, if you lengthen the time…
Seems that the N.C. Supreme Court has decided not to address his appeal of a lower court ruling that he and Charlotte Motor Speedway never had a deal with Cabarrus…
People have been playing chess around the world for hundreds of years. Why? Alex Adrianson of the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog highlights some interesting observations on the topic. Have…
On the radio this morning was a news item about some guy who wanted soldiers to get an award for coming down with PTSD. I am opposed. People should be…