Jon Sanders, Author at The Locker Room

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.

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Occupational licensing a big impediment to NC being First in Freedom

The Fraser Institute’s newly released report ranking states according to economic freedom has me thinking of what could be. Mitch Kokai discusses the findings, which gives us the relatively high ranking of 14th. Thing is, a state that boasts of being “First in Freedom” can’t be satisfied with second…

Jon Sanders, November 7, 2019
Does the N&O need to accept outside money to produce puff pieces on the governor?

It's hard to distinguish this reporting, such as it is, from a release from the governor's press office. The article takes at face value terms and assumptions used by the governor that ought to be challenged. It also misses several opportunities to provide additional context.

Jon Sanders, November 6, 2019
Watch the governor’s pendulum swing on corporate tax cuts and giveaways

In Governor Roy Cooper’s 2017 State of the State address, he took a strident position against corporate tax cuts and giveaways: “We cannot sacrifice education at the altar of even more corporate tax cuts or giveaways that are mostly for the wealthiest.” But as I asked earlier this year,…

Jon Sanders, November 5, 2019
New research: getting rid of nuclear power costs lives

Research shows this to be a stark choice: higher energy prices costs lives, and lower energy prices saves lives. Playing politics with energy prices plays with people's lives.

Jon Sanders, October 29, 2019
Favor for PURPA reform from the Left

Without reform, guess where things are particularly bad? North Carolina, where ratepayers face overpaying for electricity by roughly $1.25 billion.

Jon Sanders, October 28, 2019
What the governor’s advisory council on film incentives really should do

What should such an advisory council do? Preferably, play the role of servus publicus and keep reminding the governor, "Hominem te esse memento!" That is: Remember that you're mortal man.

Jon Sanders, October 25, 2019
Cooper: Let’s help small businesses. Not by tax cuts, but by hoping my cronies do business with them

Gov. Cooper's office wants to justify direct handouts ("grants") and tax cuts ("tax incentives") to just one industry — film productions — because they'd patronize small businesses in North Carolina.

Jon Sanders, October 24, 2019
The unpredictability of film-inspired tourism: example

There is a new tourist attraction in New York City, thanks to the movie "Joker." What is it?

Jon Sanders, October 24, 2019

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