Lindsay Marchello and Kari Travis report for Carolina Journal Online on transparency among N.C. governments. The Daily Journal uses a judge’s recent error as the basis for a lesson about…
Jeffrey Billman provides a good rundown for Independent Weekly readers of how Wake County Commissioners could push property taxes up more than $200. Natural growth will provide $32 million for…
Thomas Sowell‘s latest column at National Review Online reminds readers of the distinction between higher tax rates and higher tax revenue collection. It is one of the many signs of…
Global economist and regular Forbes columnist David Malpass contends that there’s a greater problem — “the elephant in the room no one wants to discuss” — than the prospect of…
Polk County decreased its tax rate by 0.25 cents, bringing it to 51.75 cents. It appears the decrease was not compensated by increased revals, either. What’s more, the “By the…
Chapel Hill’s economic development officer, Dwight Bassett, is sounding the alarm over the town’s inability to attract commercial business. In this story, he lays out problems with lack of office…
According to this chart, half of workers are either not at all confident, or not too confident, they’ll have enough money in retirement. Since we are living longer, this has…
Yes, you read that headline correctly. If politicians really want to see high-income earners take up a larger share of the federal tax burden, they would lower top marginal tax…
Not exactly, observes Dan Mitchell in this post. France is seeing an exodus of wealthy people following Hollande’s big increase in tax rates.
The American Institute for Economic Research has just released a revealing graphic—one which highlights the impossibility of covering prevailing spending levels through taxation alone. As Julie Ni Zhu notes, in “the…
In today’s News and Observer there was an op ed by a Professor David McAdams at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business which claims that Obama’s Buffett tax on millionaires would…
My latest Townhall.com column builds on my Locker Room post from Friday. An excerpt: It is now mid-July 2011. The latest jobs report is now out, and unemployment is not…