Polls underestimate GOP support
Among voters with graduate degrees, 60% of Republicans express the concern that disclosing their political views may harm them at work. Only 25% of Democrats express the same concern.
Among voters with graduate degrees, 60% of Republicans express the concern that disclosing their political views may harm them at work. Only 25% of Democrats express the same concern.
The good news is that North Carolina institutions aren’t just producing good ideas about how to improve school leadership. They’re on the ground implementing them.
Doing good is about more than seeking good. It’s about creating structures and programs that align individual incentives with sustainable results.
In North Carolina, we make it far too difficult for new providers to enter the marketplace. We squash competition and innovation. As a result, we make health-care costs unnecessarily high.
The great surges in living standards enjoyed during most of our country’s history came not from making things more expensive but by making them less expensive.
States with lower overall tax rates tend to make less use of targeted incentives. Those states also happen to grow faster than the desperate high-tax states throwing huge incentive grants around.
Even perfectly legal private decisions to cancel people for their political opinions will, over time, weaken the culture of free expression. We need that culture.
Gov. Cooper’s commission proposes raising the sales tax and using half the proceeds to reduce the gas tax. The net tax hike would come to as much as $6.3 billion over the next 10 years.
The roles that slavery, segregation, prejudice, and other injustices have played in our history have been embedded in North Carolina’s curriculum for decades.
At the same time that COVID-19 has worsened our mental health, however, it has also accustomed many more North Carolinians to innovations such as telehealth, teleconferencing, and remote work that can help.
Some of the barriers that keep North Carolinians from pursuing their dreams and realizing their potential cannot be removed or surmounted by government action alone.
When a single executive or a small group of judges became the focus of political debate, the stakes go up. It’s all or nothing. Go big or go home.