Budget, Taxation & Economy
Another Failed Corporate Welfare Handout
On the same day one corporate welfare deal announces its failure, another new one takes its place.
Siemens
German multinational conglomerate company
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Competing debt proposals
Governor Cooper’s $3.9 billion bond proposal for schools and water systems is the fourth entry in the contest to use state government debt capacity. The State Capital and Infrastructure Fund…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Research Update: N.C.’s 2019 Budget: Previewing Debt and Capital
From John Locke Foundation’s Joe Coletti: Everybody wants a piece of North Carolina’s statutory debt limit. For the third consecutive year, the Debt Affordability Study recommends increasing the debt limit…
Energy
Super-powerful industry that can transform the state somehow can’t get off life support
The state’s most proudly dependent and unsustainable crony industry is desperate to stay on permanent life support. It is keeping the legislature awash in rent-seeking industry propaganda. Major corporate beneficiaries of solar…
Energy
Breaking the wind-power subsidy
Roy Cordato explained recently why it makes sense to consider subsidies and penalties together when considering how government skews the market for various energy sources. Those of you interested in…
Liberty
Opinion item to read (3 of 3): Incentives for Carowinds
This column is from Sarah Curry, director of fiscal policy studies at the John Locke Foundation. Because of its regional focus, it appears in its entirety: The city of Charlotte…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Theme Park Gets Tax Incentive, While Private Citizens Get Tax Increase
View in your browser. The city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are going to vote on a proposal to give Cedar Fair Entertainment, the corporate owner of Carowinds, $922,468 in…
Energy
Germany will end solar subsidies while N.C.’s continue
Green corporate welfare may be alive and well in North Carolina (as in the state mandate forcing utilities to buy renewable energy), but in Germany, the government is prepared to…
Liberty
Siemens Mark Pringle: Fascist or Stooge?
I’m gonna go with stooge. Certainly in Bev’s hip pocket as Siemens continues to try to carve out a business model in the Carolinas which is largely dependent on public…
Liberty
Water Leaks Caused By Light Rail?
Who knows, maybe impotence too. Seriously. There is a well-established link between stray current from high-voltage lines of the kind that feed light rail systems and the accelerated corrosion of…
Liberty
Earmarks, more earmarks
The Triad Business Journal takes a look at earmarks by N.C. legislators. Sen. Elizabeth Dole leads the way with $30.2 million in requests, followed by fellow Sen. Richard Burr with…
Liberty
Northeast Line: Clip N Save
Keep this little window what CATS plans for the Northeast line handy. City council will be asked to sink millions into Northeast rail cars from transit tax campaign contributor Siemens…