Executive Order No. 24 & the “Consent Decree” September 21, 2018 Click here for Executive Order No. 24 Attachments & Executive Order No. 24 Additional Attachments Governor Roy Cooper’s Executive Order No. 24 and the “Consent Decree” proposed by Governor Roy Cooper, Attorney General Josh Stein and the ACLU What is to be done about the Governor’s Executive […]

RIGHT TO FARM? An Analysis of Senate Bill 711, Section 10 By Paul Stam June 13, 2018 Section 10 of Senate Bill 711 is a serious and direct threat to the private property rights of homeowners throughout the state. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 4-1 incorporates the common law as of 1776 into the law of […]

MYTHS and FACTS about the CORPORATE INCOME TAX and Why the Rate Should Be Zero! June 9, 2018 Paul Stam INTRODUCTION On New Year’s Day the corporate income tax rate at the federal level dropped from 35% to 21%. The corporate income tax rate in North Carolina is 3%. It will drop to 2.5% in […]

Questions, challenges and nuances arise after Kirby v. NC DOT, 368 NC 847 (2016) construing the Map Act, Article 2E of Chapter 136. While the Map Act had the goal of reducing excessive cost of land acquisition for future highway projects, it ran afoul of fundamental constitutional rights. I address some of these issues in […]

This story begins and ends in Mongolia, a landlocked country between Russia and China. One third of its people are nomads. Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan exploded out of Mongolia several centuries ago. In 1921 the USSR was on the march. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics absorbed Mongolia into its political orbit, imposing […]

In The Aftermath of the “Reset” of HB2 Paul Stam April 13, 2017 In the aftermath of the “reset” of HB 2 Gov. Roy Cooper has made four claims, on Capital Tonight, Spectrum Cable, April 10, 2017. 1.) Under the law, as HB 2 was repealed and replaced by HB 142, those persons claiming to […]