North Carolina Republicans rammed through the disastrous HB2 “bathroom bill” in less than 24 hours last year and have since piddled away multiple opportunities to repeal the law, which is projected to cost the state upward of $3.76 billion over a dozen years, according to a new Associated Press analysis: Over the past year, North Carolina has suffered financial hits ranging from scuttled plans for a PayPal facility that would have added an estimated $2.66 billion to the state's economy to a canceled Ringo Starr concert that deprived a town's amphitheater of about $33,000 in revenue.