Put your tax cards on the table
If you want to get rid of income taxation you must either raise other taxes or cut spending drastically. Please put your cards on the table. Read More
NC SPIN Posts by John Hood
Requiring work for benefits is wise
When then-President Bill Clinton signed a bipartisan welfare reform bill back in 1996, most recipients responded to the requirement by entering the job market. Read More
Fiscal fantasies threaten economic future
Since 2020, revenue has fluctuated between 16% and 19% of GDP. Net federal expenditure has fluctuated between 22% and 31% of GDP. Read More
Employment gains reflect policy success
Economic freedom has a direct relationship to economic prosperity. Read More
Cooper’s blunder still holds us back
Average student achievement in North Carolina remains almost half of a grade level below 2019 levels in math and three quarters of a grade level below in reading. Read More
Carolina patriots showed their resolve
Was there really a Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence or is it just a well-preserved myth? Read More
Carolinians still make lots of stuff
In our state, manufacturing output in dollar terms is higher today than it was in the 1990s. Our current challenge is a labor shortage. Read More
Agriculture faces severe labor shortage
If farms and food producers paid higher wages they could reduce the labor shortage, however most of them already yet many already operate on small margins. Read More
A public servant to the last
North Carolina's first governor served our state in many capacities, even to the end of his life. Read More
Higher costs threaten housing affordability
Meeting the challenge of housing affordability will require all hands on deck. Companies need to keep innovating. Government needs to keep opening up the housing market. Read More
