January 6, 2009

Now Is The Time To Give

With the end of the year fast approaching, now is a wonderful time to make a tax-deductible donation to the Civitas Institute. Your contribution today will help create a North Carolina that is both free and prosperous for years to come. We appreciate your help and dedication in joining us in the fight to make this vision a reality. (Donate Now)

Civitas Summer Internship

Interested applicants can intern at the John William Pope Civitas Institute through the Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program, administered by the Institute for Humane Studies and the State Policy Network.  In addition to an eight-week summer internship, the program provides a $1,500 stipend, housing allowance, travel reimbursement, and two week-long seminars in Washington, DC, with other fellows interning at think tanks across the United States. (More...)


Recommendation #6: Freeze State Land Purchases and Sell Underused State Land

The state of North Carolina spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year to purchase land. The most common rationale provided is that state government must own the land in order to “preserve” it from development. Implicit in this notion is the elitist attitude that state bureaucrats know best how to manage land better than its citizens.

Get The Facts... On Abstinence Education

North Carolina currently mandates that all students from kindergarten to 9th grade be taught a “comprehensive school health education program” that includes instruction on abstinence until marriage and preventing HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). According to state law, “abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard for all school-age children.”

Recommendation #5: No Corporate Welfare Payments

Should the state of North Carolina be handing out millions in taxpayer dollars to corporations during a budget crisis? The fiscal year 2008-09 state budget authorizes roughly $142 million in discretionary corporate welfare. The Civitas Institute believes this is an inappropriate use of state funds and the money should be used to help fill the current year budget gap.


How Fast is North Carolina Spending Your Money? $1,234,543,459

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