Beware Skip Alston’s “Emergency Housing Effort”

There is a pretty significant story on the Rhino Times website about an initiative Skip Alston is pursuing. The bottom line is that our esteemed local leaders are panicking over the prospect that we are going to have inadequate housing to offer the thousands of people who are ostensibly going […]

Why Don’t Evangelicals Create Beautiful Worship Spaces?

Chase Davis has a good article that discusses the matter of the building of beautiful worship spaces and church buildings. He says evangelicals don’t plan beautiful buildings because of pragmatism. He says the thinking is that beautiful worship spaces are unnecessary and a waste of money; and that monies instead […]

Employers Don’t Have To Pay Payroll Taxes on Certain Visa Holders

This applies to OPT visas. Imagine the incentive employers have to hire foreigners on visas if they immediately save roughly 6.2 percent of personnel costs. This gives these foreign visa holders a massive advantage over Americans in the eyes of employers. It also blunts Americans’ wages. Breitbart reports this was […]

The Raleigh Republicans’ Assist To Corporate Employers of Physicians

The General Assembly passed a bill— HB 67– that does several things. The bill runs 48 pages. Senate candidate Don Brown recently discussed it on OAN. He focused on the part of the bill that opens the floodgates for many more foreign-trained physicians to be employed by hospital systems in […]

Constitutional Amendment To Limit Property Tax Increases

Rep. Brian Echevrarria has a great article at Carolina Journal that talks about a proposal to limit property tax increases. Republicans are proposing a constitutional amendment. Statewide, steep increases in property valuations have increased property taxes; and we likely face potentially severe future increases. Local units of government are exploiting […]