Sharon Decker, NC Department of Commerce secretary during the McCrory administration in 2013-14, authored this editorial recently published at WRAL.com. Decker attempts to make the case for North Carolina to…
It's not as if Texas was minding its own business and suddenly won the low-tax business-welcoming climate lottery. Texas adopted policies that economists have consistently shown to promote stronger economic…
Tax the poor! North Carolina needs more jobs: McCrory and recently retired Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker have said that not enough money is set aside in [the NC JDIG corporate…
View in your browser. In the last 24 hours the state of North Carolina, invoking the infinite wisdom of politicians and bureaucrats, has announced that it is subsidizing the investments…
Economic incentives packages — special tax breaks negotiated for particular companies or industries while all others continue to pay higher rates for the apparent crime of not closing up shop…
To the self-defeating idea of economic incentives, Decker is an endless Rickroll; she is never gonna give you up never gonna give you up never gonna give you up ……
I must confess to being a bit confused by this story about North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker’s visit to Craven County. Evidently, Decker argued for an increase in the…
We learned this week that North Carolina offered the mad bribe of $107-friggin’-million in economic incentives to get Toyota to locate its North America headquarters in Charlotte, but lost. Who…
• WRAL News’ Mark Binker looks at the charge by the Senate Majority PAC that House Speaker (and Republican Senate nominee) Thom Tillis “[gave] tax breaks for yacht and private…
…. I say look at the data on what North Carolina’s refundable film tax credit doesn’t deliver. North Carolina loses 54 cents for every dollar it allocates to the state…
Is North Carolina’s film tax credit the economic driver its supporters claim? No, according to the legislature’s Fiscal Research Division. Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports here. North Carolina loses 54…
Gov. Pat McCrory has announced that a Belgium company will be locating its North American manufacturing headquarters to High Point. No, the Belgian company won’t be making waffles. Yes, the…