A Meltdown Over Medicaid
Furious that Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led legislature has turned down the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, Democratic lawmakers, liberal scholars, and left-wing activists have... Read More
NC SPIN Posts by John Hood
Two Views of the NC Economy
North Carolina’s lackluster economy is the top political issue. Voters who pay scant attention to legislative sessions and partisan dust-ups in Raleigh view state leaders primarily through the... Read More
Saying No is a Start
Now that the North Carolina legislature has sent a clear signal that it opposes both Medicaid expansion and a state-based health exchange, the state capital is abuzz with complaints and speculations... Read More
Why Raleigh Told Washington No
Now that the General Assembly has made it clear North Carolina will not set up state insurance exchanges or expand Medicaid under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, I’m going to remind Carolina... Read More
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
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
