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On May 14, Mike Walden spoke at a conference at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business on the impact of changes in North Carolina’s tax structure on the state’s economic growth. Joining Walden were economists from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, as well as the State Senate’s President Pro Tempore, Senator Phil Berger