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NC Budget and Tax Center’s Sally Hodges Copple on the legislature’s worrisome tax triggers
Sally Hodges-Copple (Courtesy photo)
As state lawmakers return to Raleigh this week for their 2026 legislative short session, there’s one issue that looms as the most important and most challenging: the state budget. Thanks to a long series of personal and corporate income tax cuts (and more that are scheduled to take place), the state will soon face a massive new budget shortfall that will endanger an array of core public systems and services that are already being run on shoestring.
Now add to this that House and Senate Republicans haven’t even been able to agree on a budget for the current…
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