Jon Sanders

Gov. Roy Cooper is touting Medicaid expansion now as a "jobs" program, saying it would "add an estimated 37,200 more jobs to North Carolina." If you wondered "Based on what?" or "Estimated by whom?" you are ahead of the game.

This bill contains the John Locke Foundation's top recommendation in our Policy Position on Red Tape and Regulatory Reform.

The governor's advocacy of high corporate taxes and high corporate welfare may seem hypocritical, but it's one of four policy combinations. Each has a different outcome.

Commissioners in Orange County, North Carolina, apparently think proceeds from a quarter-cent property tax increase would mitigate climate change.

North Carolina is one of only 16 states in the U.S. with a franchise tax, which amounts to a double tax on corporate assets. That doesn't sound very good. It sounds worse the more you read about it.

The fulcrum of our independence is encapsulated in this sentence in our Declaration: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Do we still?

The N.C. Board of Funeral Service opposes a bill that would allow for provisional licenses for funeral directors here. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, the governor just signed a law allowing for provisional licenses across licensing boards.

A year ago we explained that "Gov. Cooper opposes tax cuts for corporations in general, not particular. It’s a fine distinction." Examples abound in even the past three months of press releases from the governor's office.