Jon Sanders

Good heavens. Where did they get this horrid idea from, and why? Perhaps this is the reason.

How can this be? If the government gives money to incentivize economic development, how can that not promote economic development? An economist explains.

If there is one political issue that's defined North Carolina politics for nearly a year now, it's Gov. Roy Cooper's decision to veto the state budget. Cooper frames the budget debate as "a choice between further cuts in corporate taxes or investments in our teachers." PolitiFact's done nothing with Cooper's depiction. WRAL doubled down with a poll supporting it.

Hasn't everything we've been told over the past two decades said that those were impossible? Weren't we under the impression that those things worked in opposition — that we'd have to choose between one or the other?

The case for EVs to curb climate emissions (let alone mitigate hurricanes) is too weak for Gov. Cooper to force. Worse, the trend of research makes them seem much more likely to have negative unintended consequences.

You see it, don't you? The flaw in Cooper's reasoning is glaringly obvious. Media don't, however.

Gov. Roy Cooper's policies on corporate taxes and corporate welfare can seem confusing at first. In January, he continued his befuddling practice of approving millions of dollars to individual corporations while complaining about corporate tax cuts.

The captured regulator is a pernicious failed safeguard against cronyism that cloaks corruption in the guise of government oversight.