Budget (page 3)

Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports on key elements of the budget compromise released Monday. The $23 billion House and Senate budget compromise will include a 3.1 percent increase in spending in the 2017-18 budget year, which is higher than the two chambers agreed to several months ago when budget writing…

As John Hood writes here, state lawmakers, the governor, and taxpayers should take note of a key economic number and act wisely with state resources. Since the beginning of this year, there have been no net new jobs created in North Carolina. In fact, using the latest data from…

North Carolina legislators could save taxpayers another $455 million in the next budget year. They would meet that target by using a tool called consensus-based budgeting. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report offers details. JLF is releasing its report as N.C. House and Senate budget negotiators work out…

The franchise tax. The sales tax. The corporate income tax. The personal income tax. JLF’s Joe Coletti analyzes tax reform proposals in the House and Senate budget plans. For example: Both budget proposals would increase the standard deduction available to taxpayers. The Senate’s plan would raise the amount for…

Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the N.C. House budget for 2017-19 and the next steps in the state budget process. Watch here.

Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation senior vice president, lists three items N.C. businesses should like about the state House budget. Gray offered these comments during the June 2, 2017, edition of the N.C. Channel’s “Bottom Line.” WATCH here. You’ll find Becki’s full assessment of the House budget here. Among her…

The House budget’s transfer of $365 million to the Repairs and Renovations Reserve is three times what the Senate or Gov. Cooper proposed, writes JLF’s Joe Coletti. Despite legal requirements, there has rarely been enough money to cover costs of existing facilities, even as state government added new construction…

Reporter Kari Travis has an in-depth Q&A with Rep. Nelson Dollar of Wake County. Among the questions to, and answers from, one of the top budget writers in the House: Q: What makes you most proud in this budget? What is not in it that you regret…