Taxation & Economy
The budget failure and its consequences
Last month, I urged the North Carolina General Assembly to send a biennial budget to Gov. Josh Stein’s desk before Thanksgiving. I suggested that date for clear reasons: Since at least 1995, the General Assembly has always…
NC’s DOGE-style program discovers lack of transparency at NCDHHS
Hundreds of millions of dollars unaccounted for, department hasn’t filed report of funds on time since 2017 A “mini budget” bill passed this summer included the creation of the “Division of Accountability, Value, and…
Is Stein’s DCR making the same mistake?
Thanks to the failures of former Gov. Roy Cooper’s North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR), hundreds of families whose homes were destroyed by Hurricanes Matthew (2016) and Florence (2018) are still living in…
When the budget deadline died
North Carolina is now nearly four months into the fiscal year, yet lawmakers have not enacted a budget for the 2025–27 biennium — or even sent a proposal to the governor’s desk. Before 2016, when a budget wasn’t in place by…
The politics of hunger
USDA’s hunger survey politicized data to expand welfare despite fairly flat hunger rates Better, less biased data already exist from private and federal sources Government data collection risks civil liberties and fuels…
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