Joseph Coletti

Senior Fellow
Joe Coletti is a senior fellow at the John Locke Foundation focused on fiscal policy issues. He previously headed the North Carolina Government Efficiency and Reform initiative within the Office of State Budget and Management, which led to changes automotive fleet management, natural and cultural resources, and state contracting. He has spent his career improving operations and strategies at for-profit, nonprofit, and government entities. He has degrees from Johns Hopkins SAIS and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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  • New directions for conservative giving

    Daniel Schmidt and Michael Hartmann pay homage to Michael Joyce, long-time president of the Bradley Foundation, and draw lessons for the future direction of conservative giving, which they see becoming more diverse and personal. There is a lot worth reading in the essay, but some of the areas where…
    Joseph Coletti, June 22, 2018

  • Build NC Bonds to become law

    Triangle Business Journal reports Gov. Roy Cooper is set to sign into law the Build NC Bonds. The program to take on as much as $3 billion in new debt without taxpayer approval could be a factor in the state’s bids for Apple and Amazon, the paper said.
    Joseph Coletti, June 20, 2018

  • Measuring the state’s success in re-employment

    Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab (GPL) began with a focus on social impact bonds and pay for success contracts. It now exists to help state and local governments do their work better, whether internally or with outside contracts. A team will soon be in North Carolina “to support…
    Joseph Coletti, June 18, 2018

  • Tax Break for Charlotte Panthers Proposed Again

    The Carolina Panthers may have a new owner, but at least one thing remains constant, a provision tucked away in an otherwise unnoticed bill to provide a special tax break to the team (and Charlotte’s minor league baseball team). As explained last year, the Panthers (and Knights) rent the…
    Joseph Coletti, June 14, 2018
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  • Can laws change how we shop?

    What happens to retailers and service providers in the next recession? They are reliant in the Triangle on consumers who already owe $4.5 billion in credit card debt, an average of $10,000 to $16,000 per household. Until then, experiences are displacing things in storefronts. Alex Marshall starts with a North…
    Joseph Coletti, June 13, 2018

  • Revenues slow, surplus remains

    The big April boost in government revenues has been followed by a more normal May in a pattern that looks similar to what the state experienced in FY2015-16, according to the latest numbers from the Office of the State Controller. The surplus will likely not be as large as…
    Joseph Coletti, June 12, 2018
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  • Cronyism’s Cost in Competitiveness

    New research continues to highlight the economic burdens imposed by big government regulations and big corporation cronyism in the US. For all the concerns about the heavy hand of Brussels on members of the European Union—and in Europe’s most competitive countries, this was a real concern—the EU has actually reduced…
    Joseph Coletti, June 12, 2018

  • Rocky Mount bets big on government

    The big gamble at the heat of Rocky Mount is it’s Event Center, on which the John Locke Foundation has considered an unwise burden for taxpayers and raised a number of questions on its financing through debt without a vote of the taxpayers, its initiation before lower property values were…
    Joseph Coletti, June 8, 2018
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