For Good Public Policy Health
With health care issues playing an outsized role in North Carolina politics right now, I strongly urge Carolina Journal readers to put John Goodman’s recent book Priceless: Curing the Healthcare... Read More
NC SPIN Posts by John Hood
What They Think They Know
Some of the faulty “knowledge” comes from long memories. People remember things that may have been true sometime in the past, but aren’t anymore. For example, many North Carolinians still cling... Read More
Look for the Party Label
I noted a couple of days ago that North Carolina native Richard Weaver helped spark the modern conservative movement with his 1948 book Ideas Have Consequences. My John Locke Foundation colleagues and... Read More
Reform Taxes — But Don’t Burden Business
In a free society, the only purpose of taxation is to raise revenues to fund the government. This should be done while minimizing the damage taxes do to growth and freedom. North Carolina’s tax... Read More
Unemployment Benefits Affect Employment
Noting that the unemployment rate continues to drop, albeit at a painfully slow rate, one think tanker told The Wall Street Journal that recent reductions in the generosity of the unemployment... Read More
John Hood’s perspective on the 2013 session of The General Assembly
I expect the 2013 session of the North Carolina General Assembly to combine a number of discrete, easy-to-explain, and popular initiatives — such as a voter ID bill — with a few big policy slogs... Read More
Let's Reform Judicial Elections
North Carolina policymakers will have a lot on their plate in 2013. The General Assembly will tackle education reform, a rewrite of the state tax code, the unemployment-insurance debt, and other... Read More
Two State Decisions on Health Care
Politicians of all parties, at all levels of government, have been debating health care virtually nonstop since the early 1990s. If you’re tired of hearing about it, I have some bad news for you... Read More
Let's Focus on Job Creation
It’s about time for New Year’s resolutions. My recommendation for North Carolina politicians of all stripes is to resolve to focus their attention, rhetoric, and legislation on reducing the ranks... Read More
Time to Step Up
Newly elected Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the newly reelected Republican legislature may have an ambitious agenda for dramatically cutting taxes or adding new programs to the state budget. But... Read More
