Nationalizing politics was a mistake
We’ve turned every federal election into a potential catastrophe in someone’s mind. We’ve made the stakes too high.
We’ve turned every federal election into a potential catastrophe in someone’s mind. We’ve made the stakes too high.
Paying people to stay home from work may make sense as a temporary expedient in the midst of an outbreak of communicable disease. But it’s not the right policy now.
People differ in their preferences, circumstances, and definitions of a life well lived. The best way to gauge how happy or satisfied they feel is to ask them.
Congress and the Biden administration seems determined to hike the federal government’s corporate-income tax. Let’s offset some of the inevitable economic damage in our own state.
“If Catherine Truitt seeks to be seen as the state’s education leader, the route isn’t via reflexive partisan fealty,” the WRAL-TV editorialist snarled.
Politicians who assert the magic of multiplier effects to justify their pet programs may be dissembling. But it is my experience that most of the time, they don’t know enough about the matter to be lying.
Even at low interest rates, borrowing is costlier than paying cash. And the governor proposes to put his $4.6 billion debt spree on the ballot in an off-year, low-turnout election.
A properly constructed poverty measure based on living standards show that the poverty rate fell from 16.8% in 1972 to 2.8% in 2018.
Not enough young people are graduating from high school, receiving good postsecondary education or training, and then developing valuable skills through on-the-job experience.
Most suburban voters in North Carolina continue to favor the GOP. If they didn’t, the party would not be able to compete with Democrats.
I have little confidence the ABC system will manage its operations much more efficiently in the future than it has in the past. It’s a monopoly. That’s how a monopoly works — or, more to the point, fails to work.
President Biden’s $1.9 “stimulus” is a reckless and irresponsible bill — one that, we are pleased to report, most of North Carolina’s congressional delegation voted against.