Poor Barry Goldwater. Had the Arizona senator left out two searingly memorable lines in his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in 1964 — “I would remind you that extremism in the […]
Raise the pay of all N.C. state senators and representatives to $100,000 annually, and leave it at that. Make the pay raise effective January 2025. There would be two intervening elections in 2022 and 2024 […]
Americans love the idea and nostalgia of trains. They just don’t ever buy a ticket and get on a train to go somewhere. Singer-songwriters love the romance of riding the rails with hobos. Arlo Guthrie’s […]
President Biden, with the help of the same old gang who did such a great job holding back the economy under President Barack Obama, last week unveiled his proposal to double the capital gains tax […]
After decades of watching Democrats enact tax policy from close-up and afar, the only conclusion anyone can come to is this: Democrats have no over-riding, over-arching higher order principle when it comes to tax policy. […]
Roads are infrastructure. Bridges are infrastructure. Things made of concrete and steel that help move people and product around the country in cheaper, safer modes are infrastructure. President Joe Biden’s so-called “infrastructure” proposal is not […]
Republicans who run the NC General Assembly are following the same sober and mature approach toward spending North Carolinians’ tax money as our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, did in Washington from 1923-1928. We should be […]
Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the early days of the Republic on an official mission for the French department of the interior to study the US penitentiary system. What he discovered as he traveled […]
President Joe Biden has declared emphatically he will get a massive tax hike through Congress, and he will sign it. Knock yourself out, Mr. President. Raising tax rates has never paid for all the new […]
Every senior moderate Democrat in North Carolina assured us during the campaign that Joe Biden was a moderate. They said he would stand in the way of the left-wing, extreme-liberal socialists who control the Democratic […]
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