First, here are the relevant documents related to Attorney General Roy Cooper’s decision not to join the lawsuit challenging whether the recently enacted health care bill is constitutional. Cooper’s Letter…
Folks up in Watauga County are supposed to get excited about acquiring as much as possible of $22 million from the federal deficit going to North Carolina for rental assistance.…
Don Taylor does not think insurance companies would be willing to sell insurance across state lines. But he admits large interstate employers already offer their workers insurance across state lines…
The Winston-Salem Journal says the North Carolina Department of Revenue should sue online retailers who pulled out of North Carolina in order to avoid collecting sales tax: North Carolina loses…
The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution expressly gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. It then follows that states can’t regulate interstate commerce. This doctrine is referred to…
Barack Obama offered more details of his educational platform during a speech this morning at a high school in Ohio. A key theme was embracing innovation, including more charter schools…
So we’re giving it away to other states. We are truly an innovator in the new Inter-State Charity Tax scheme. Check out my blog at environmentnc or Daren’s new…
There’s plenty of dumb to go around, and that was true for our country even during the 1942 version of the fight for the free world. Consider the following story…
New research shows that consumers do not pay the entire amount of a gas tax and that gas tax increases can raise prices in neighboring states. The first part makes…
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Ashcroft v. Raich. The issue is whether the federal government can override state statutes which allow individuals to use…