John Hood
Business & Economics
More Work To Do
Over the past five years, North Carolina has become a more attractive place to work, live, invest, and do business. The state tax burden is lower — by hundreds of millions of dollars a year — and restructured in a way that reduces the double-taxation of investment in new jobs, ...
John Hood
December 21, 2015
Business & Economics
Some Stimulating Reading
Some Stimulating Reading With the bloated, ramshackle, pork-laden, grotesque corruption of a “stimulus bill” now headed to the U.S. Senate, here’s a handy list of arguments and sources as we debate America’s new lurch towards European-style social democracy: The Pacific Research Institute’s Robert Murphy explains the economic-policy mistake that underlies ...
John Hood
January 29, 2009
Commentary
Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition
Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition Here’s a recent sampling of the intellectual ammunition available from the nation’s leading think tanks: The Little Three automakers and their enablers in Congress have been pointing to a study warning of dire economic consequences for Americans if the insolvent firms are allowed ...
John Hood
December 10, 2008
Business & Economics
Time To Close The Freedom Deficit
Carolina Journal Online, November 13, 2008 The Lincoln Tribune (NC), November 22,2008 Rocky Mount Telegram (CO), November 22, 2008 The Wilson Times (Wilson, NC), November 26, 2008 RALEIGH – Just in time for a worldwide economic crisis, there’s new evidence that North Carolina politicians have spent the past several years ...
John Hood
November 13, 2008
More Work To Do
Over the past five years, North Carolina has become a more attractive place to work, live, invest, and do business. The state tax burden is lower — by hundreds of millions of dollars a year — and restructured in a way that reduces the double-taxation of investment in new jobs, ...
Some Stimulating Reading
Some Stimulating Reading With the bloated, ramshackle, pork-laden, grotesque corruption of a “stimulus bill” now headed to the U.S. Senate, here’s a handy list of arguments and sources as we debate America’s new lurch towards European-style social democracy: The Pacific Research Institute’s Robert Murphy explains the economic-policy mistake that underlies ...
Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition
Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition Here’s a recent sampling of the intellectual ammunition available from the nation’s leading think tanks: The Little Three automakers and their enablers in Congress have been pointing to a study warning of dire economic consequences for Americans if the insolvent firms are allowed ...
Time To Close The Freedom Deficit
Carolina Journal Online, November 13, 2008 The Lincoln Tribune (NC), November 22,2008 Rocky Mount Telegram (CO), November 22, 2008 The Wilson Times (Wilson, NC), November 26, 2008 RALEIGH – Just in time for a worldwide economic crisis, there’s new evidence that North Carolina politicians have spent the past several years ...