Balancing a state budget is an exercise in tradeoffs. Every dollar allocated to one priority is a dollar unavailable for another. Yet those tradeoffs are often difficult to see, buried…
Amid stalled budget negotiations, the General Assembly has passed its first mini budget of the biennium.
With budget negotiations stalled over disagreements on personal income tax rate cuts and revenue triggers, both chambers unveiled two spending bills this week. On Monday, the Senate released a revamped…
Introduction Government needs to be open and accountable to taxpayers. Many of the tools needed to achieve that goal also help government employees succeed in their jobs. Traditionally, the state…
Inexplicably, NCORR generated an estimated $319 million budget deficit while only completing homes for 68 percent of the families in the HRP. Now, with 1,364 homes damaged by Matthew and…
Conservative tax cuts saved NC taxpayers more than $800 million last year alone.
Gov. Cooper recently declared a “state of emergency for public education,” claiming Republican policies aim to “choke the life out of public education” by cutting budgets, siphoning funds, and funneling…
The North Carolina Senate released its biennium budget proposal this week as scheduled, with the expectation of meeting with the state House to establish a conference budget before the current…
The Office of State Budget and Management and the General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division released their joint forecast for North Carolina’s revenue today. This is a standard procedure that occurs in the early days…
North Carolina’s urban counties are growing quickly, as is demand for new housing. Zoning restrictions regulate property markets and artificially restrict the supply of new housing in our cities where…
Billions of taxpayer dollars are expended on hurricane recovery in North Carolina. Disaster responses historically fail to meet victims’ needs and waste significant funds. The federal government should step back and…
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear the latest appeal in the long-running Leandro education funding lawsuit in August. A recusal motion against Justice Phil Berger Jr. relies on the…