North Carolina leaders have pledged nearly $2 billion in taxpayer resources in corporate welfare in the last two years. Interstate compacts represent truce agreements to cease corporate welfare incentives that…
Robert Bork Jr. offers National Review Online readers a warning about rewriting federal antitrust law. When Daniel Oliver, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under Ronald Reagan, comes out…
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon documents one prominent senator’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such defensiveness is a common feature of pandemics—during the 1976 swine flu scare,…
The prospect of expanding Medicaid in North Carolina was back in the news recently due to the General Assembly’s return to Raleigh and a newly agreed-upon deal between legislators and…
Sometimes, when trying to explain how a political issue is a thorny mess, I’ve used the phrase “public-choice problem.” Recent examples include such issues as occupational licensing, film incentives, government…
Fans of my recent column contrasting economic systems based on freedom with those based on socialism might appreciate the following passage from Paul Hollander’s latest book review in National Review.…
Last week I wrote a post on "Cronyism and public-choice problems." I realized I kept discussing the term without providing much background on it. Here's more on a very important…
A lot has been written about the proposals being made by leftist politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders to add a new top rate of 70-80 percent…
Among many in the Democratic Party, attacking the rich is back in style. Some popular Democrats contend that large concentrations of wealth are, at best, unseemly and, at worst, absolutely…
Princeton economist Alan Blinder has earned some well-deserved criticism in this forum. In the latest Barron’s, though, Blinder offers a great illustration of the difference between an economic and political…
The year-end edition of Carolina Journal Radio looks back at some of 2017’s most interesting topics. Jon Pritchett shares highlights from his Wall Street Journal column detailing the problems linked…
Maryland more than tripled its film production tax incentives to keep "House of Cards" from following through on the threat to leave the state — even after studying the tax…