Legislative Republicans spotlighted twice this week the work of John Locke Foundation President John Hood. Daily e-mail blasts from the Senate GOP linked to Hood’s Daily Journals on the Senate tax plan and the North Carolina tax burden. Meanwhile, the Wilmington Star-News interviewed Hood about legislative funding for sand-pumping projects on the coast. (“I think it’s difficult enough to justify some of these protects anyway,” said John Hood,
president of the conservative-leaning John Locke Foundation, who favors
100 percent local funding for sand-pumping operations. “But in tough
times when core programs are being cut, it’s impossible to justify
spending of this kind.”) Hood’s comments attracted attention from the Asheville Citizen-Times, which quoted him in an editorial. Hood also continues to share his knowledge with the wide audience at National Review Online’s blog, “The Corner,” with entries such as this one on the federal energy bill, federal preemption, and misuse of the tax code. Sheldon Richman also referenced Hood in a recent column for the Foundation for Economic Education.