When a Wake Forest University professor suggested this week to listeners of WPTF’s Rick and Donna Martinez program that the United States needs more deficit-fueled government stimulus spending, Fergus Hodgson responded with facts about the problems associated with government stimulus. The John Locke Foundation’s Director of Fiscal Policy Studies also discussed Gov. Bev Perdue’s election announcement with the Gaston Gazette. Hodgson attracted attention from the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” for his recent report on the state’s unemployment insurance debt. The Bertie Ledger-Advance recently quoted Hodgson on the same topic. (The Locke Foundation suggested limiting future unemployment tax increases on employers by bringing its unemployment compensation more in line with neighboring states. “While the trust fund debt has grown rapidly in just two-and-a-half years, changes of relative ease would pay off this debt in six years,” said Fergus Hodgson, director of fiscal policy for the Locke Foundation.) Hodgson’s latest Future of Freedom Foundation column focused on immigration reform. La Conexion published a version of that piece. Meanwhile, The Freeman published a column from Roy Cordato, Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar, on taxing investment. The Moral Liberal website promoted that column as well. The Daily Tar Heel interviewed Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies, about Gov. Beverly Perdue’s proposal to raise the state sales tax. A guest columnist in the Richmond (Ind.) Palladium-Item quoted former Locke fiscal researcher Joseph Coletti on targeted tax incentives.