NC Budget and Tax Center’s Sally Hodges Copple on the legislature’s worrisome tax triggers

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 fiscal year and it’s no wonder that a growing chorus of experts has issued a dire warning about what lies ahead for the state fiscal picture absent swift action, and recently we sat down with one of those experts – the NC Budget and Tax Center’s Sally Hodges Copple – to learn more. Click here to listen to the full interview with the NC Budget and Tax Center’s Sally Hodges-Copple.

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NC Budget and Tax Center’s Sally Hodges Copple on the legislature’s worrisome tax triggers is an episode from NC Policy Watch by NC Policy Watch.

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This episode was published on Apr 20, 2026.

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