Research Editor and Senior Fellow, Regulatory Studies
Jon Sanders studies regulatory policy, a veritable kudzu of invasive government and unintended consequences. As director of regulatory studies at the John Locke Foundation, Jon gets into the weeds in all kinds of policy areas, including electricity, occupational licensing, hydraulic fracturing, the minimum wage, poverty and opportunity, state rulemaking, film and other incentives programs, certificates of need, and cronyism.
If the Perpetual Lockdown computer modeling was at all accurate, these results couldn't be. If anything, the rapid decline in Covid numbers accelerated the more freedom was restored to people.
So far this year, Cooper has pledged $930.7 million to just 22 corporations. But he denounces cutting the tax burden on all NC businesses, over 930,000 of which are small businesses.
Image source: Screenshot of April 29, 2020, WXII 12 News video of small business owner Matthew “Jax” Myers, who was arrested for reopening his tattoo business after receiving no small business assistance loan or federal Paycheck Protection Program help — and also after 13 failed attempts to collect…
All things considered, over 99.9% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. An estimated 70.3% of adult North Carolinians now have immunity.
Fewer than half of the "new" deaths reported actually occurred in the past three weeks, while roughly the same proportion occurred back in February or earlier.
Here are how North Carolina's Covid numbers have changed in the three weeks since Cooper's announcement. They are dropping like Wile E. Coyote after looking down.
