State of North Carolina secondary Archives: on Corporations
Bev Perdue:
Tax relief for corporations from highest rate in southeast
Tonight I propose giving North Carolina one more tool to attract new jobs and to grow jobs here in existing small businesses: Tax relief for corporations and for small businesses. Right now, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the southeast.
That means our businesses are paying more taxes when they could be creating jobs. That's a strike against us from Day One as we work to convince businesses that North Carolina is the best value. Businesses look at more than the bottom line, but the botto
line is the big difference maker in a company's relocation decision. So in this budget--we will continue to fund our business incentives for job growth and job recruitment. And I am asking the General Assembly to lower our corporate tax rate to
4.9%--the lowest in the southeast and one of the lowest in the nation. This change will push North Carolina to the forefront in growing jobs for our people. And that, my friends, must be the No. 1 priority for every one of us in this chamber tonight.
Source: North Carolina 2011 State of the State Address
Feb 14, 2011
Cal Cunningham:
Encourage investment in minority businesses
Cal recognizes that too many communities across North Carolina have seen generations of economic inequality due to institutionalized racial discrimination and the resulting disparities in inter-generational wealth. He believes we need
innovative policies that break down historical barriers and encourage capital investment in communities of color and minority-owned businesses to reverse the legacy of economic injustice.
Source: 2020 North Carolina Senate campaign website CalForNC.com
Jun 10, 2020
Cal Cunningham:
Early backer of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Q: Tighten or loosen regulation of banks and credit card companies?Cal Cunningham: Tighten. Early backer of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Address "tax loopholes that benefit corporations and the wealthy."
Thom Tillis: Loosen. Voted in favor of rolling back Dodd-Frank banking regulations. Says the CFPB needs more "oversight from Congress."
Source: CampusElect survey of 2020 North Carolina Senate race
Sep 30, 2020
Dan Forest:
Small businesses create jobs; repeal excessive regulations
On his website, Forest outlined his belief statements:- I believe in small government, low taxes and free enterprise
- I believe in ending corporate welfare and recruitment incentives and replacing it with lower taxes for all North Carolina
businesses
- I believe small businesses create jobs, not the government, and we need to repeal excessive regulations on our job creators
- I believe that policies should be enacted that encourage personal responsibility, not government dependence
Source: Ballotpedia.org on 2020 North Carolina Governor race
Sep 9, 2019
Deborah Ross:
Corporations and wealthiest should pay their fair share
Q: On Taxes: Signed Americans for Tax Reform Pledge to oppose "any and all" tax increases to raise revenue? Burr: Yes
Ross: No
Q: On Taxes: Increase taxes on corporations
and/or high-income individuals to pay for public services?
Burr: No
Ross: Yes. Wants "corporations and the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share."
Source: CampusElect Voter Guide to 2016 North Carolina Senate race
Oct 9, 2016
Roy Cooper:
Pushed to pass first U.S. anti-predatory lending law
Q: Tighten or loosen regulation of banks and credit card companies?Roy Cooper: Tighten. Pushed to pass first U.S. anti-predatory lending law and financial fraud protections.
Dan Forest: Loosen. "Having fewer regulations fosters a spirit of innovation in our state."
Source: CampusElect survey on 2020 North Carolina Gubernatorial race
Nov 3, 2020
Thom Tillis:
AdWatch: began working at 15; postponed college until later
Thom Tillis will begin running the second TV advertisement of his US Senate campaign, once again highlighting his business background. Unlike his first ad, Tillis does not name Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan in the spot. Rather, he references the "train
wreck in Washington."The 30-second spot is mainly biographical.
His commercial doesn't mention that he is in his second term as state House speaker, one of the two most influential legislative positions in the state. Rather, he mentions working as a
short-order cook at 15 and the fact he put off college until later in life, eventually rising to become a partner at IBM.
Democrats pounced on the omission of his legislative service in their response to the ad Thursday. "Tillis talks about
opportunity, but his record in the General Assembly, on which he has promised he will run, and his policy positions tell a much different story," said a spokeswoman for Hagan.
Source: WRAL-5 AdWatch on 2014 North Carolina Senate race
Mar 6, 2014
Thom Tillis:
Voted to roll back Dodd-Frank banking regulations
Q: Tighten or loosen regulation of banks and credit card companies?Thom Tillis: Loosen. Voted in favor of rolling back Dodd-Frank banking regulations. Says the CFPB needs more "oversight from Congress."
Cal Cunningham: Tighten. Early backer of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Address "tax loopholes that benefit corporations and the wealthy."
Source: CampusElect survey of 2020 North Carolina Senate race
Sep 30, 2020
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