(The Center Square) – Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville and the Outer Banks keyed record spending in 2023 across North Carolina’s tourism industry, an annual report says. The four locales had the most traveler expenditures and each is responsible for the highest number of direct tourism employees, respective to county measurements. The North Carolina Department of Commerce […]
Kamala’s tax cut collision course Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to set herself apart from former President Donald Trump in every possible way. At the top of her list is putting daylight between her economic agenda and her opponent’s with a promise to let his signature Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire. The only […]
(The Center Square) – Only 40% of student loan borrowers make payments, and congressional committee leaders from North Carolina and Louisiana said Wednesday the federal report confirms the White House’s efforts to win votes at taxpayers’ expense. U.S. Reps. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., and Sen. Dr. Bill Cassidy, R-La., requested the Government Accountability Office analysis because […]
(The Center Square) – With the price of oil on the rise because of tensions in the Middle East, the high gas taxes in Illinois only makes things more expensive for motorists. A study by the Tax Foundation shows that Illinois has the second highest gas taxes in the country, behind only California, the only two states with […]
(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump laid out his economic policies and vision for the country at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, promising to keep intact the Affordable Care Act, Social Security and Medicare. “A lot of people are very devastated by what’s happened with inflation,” Trump said in Asheville. “I gave […]
Several airports in Germany were forced to suspend flights on Thursday morning as environmentalists and climate change activists illegally entered airfields while flights were landing and taking off. Eight protesters caused flights to be delayed or suspended in Stuttgart, Cologne Bonn, Nuremberg, and Berlin Brandenburg airports in Germany. The activists caused the disruptions by gluing […]
As riots shook cities across the United States in 2020, then-Sen. Kamala Harris authored a little-known blog post urging the public to help demonstrators “on the front lines” by donating to a bail fund that freed violent criminals. The blog post, which Harris published on her Medium profile on May 31, 2020, came amid riots […]
Vice President Kamala Harris is juggling a difficult task almost a month into her 2024 run: keeping President Joe Biden far enough away to establish her independence while taking credit for the shared accomplishments of their administration. Harris will continue to push for bipartisan policies yet to be realized from the Biden agenda, her campaign […]
EXCLUSIVE — House Democrats’ main campaign arm is expanding its “Red to Blue” fundraising program as the 2024 primary cycle comes to a close, with the party looking to flip several competitive seats and take control of the lower chamber next year. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding three candidates to its program, which […]
Congress faces a major “tax cliff” in 2025 with the expiration of the individual components of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, otherwise known as the Trump tax cuts. This year’s elections will largely determine the fate of trillions of dollars in tax cuts and the course of policy for years to come. At […]
