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North Carolina should build its own budget simulator

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By Joe Harris
| John Locke Foundation
Balancing a state budget is an exercise in tradeoffs. Every dollar allocated to one priority is a dollar unavailable for another. Yet those tradeoffs are often difficult to see, buried in lengthy documents, complex fiscal tables, and competing policy claims. A new online tool from Longleaf Politics makes those choices more tangible by allowing users to build their own version of North Carolina’s budget.
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Delaying reappraisals, not tax increases: What Senate Bill 889 would do

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By Joe Harris
| John Locke Foundation
Property tax reform has drawn significant attention in North Carolina in the lead-up to the short session and remains a central issue as policymakers respond to concerns about rising tax bills across the state. Those concerns are well-founded. In a recent analysis of North Carolina’s largest counties, property tax collections exceeded a benchmark tied to inflation and population growth by more than $2.6 billion over the past decade.
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North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion financing gap that no one is talking about

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By Joe Harris
| John Locke Foundation
Provider taxes are levied on hospitals’ net patient revenues and used to fund the state’s 10 percent share of Medicaid expansion costs, helping draw down federal matching funds that support the program. A provision in last year’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” mandates that beginning in 2028, the maximum provider tax rate states are allowed to charge will be reduced from 6 percent to 3.5 percent in annual decreases of 0.5 percentage points.
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