The statewide television audience for News 14 Carolina’s “Capital Tonight” had a chance this week to watch as John Locke Foundation President John Hood analyzed the N.C. House’s tax reform plan. Hood discusses tax reform again during an appearance this weekend on WRAL Television’s “On The Record” program. The Greensboro News & Record‘s “Off The Record” blog quoted Hood’s observations about tax reform, and N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press email Hood’s latest tax reform column. Senators also highlighted Hood’s column on the explosion in state Medicaid spending.
The Winston-Salem Journal quoted Hood in an article about unemployment benefits, while a Roxboro Courier-Times letter cited one of Hood’s columns. (Mr. Hood wrote, “To the extent North Carolina politics looks increasingly quarrelsome, it is because of a breakdown of … constructive debate among people of good faith who happen to disagree on public policy.”) The Hendersonville Times-News editor invoked Hood while making a passing reference to the recent Internal Revenue Service scandal. (And the IRS might get involved, but only if I claim the purchase as a deduction because I wear the clothes while editing copy provided by John Hood of the conservative John Locke Foundation.) A letter writer in the Elizabeth City Daily Advance responded to one of Hood’s syndicated columns on supply-side economic policies.
The N.C. League of Conservation Voters promoted on its website the column Hood recently co-authored for the Wilmington Star-News on state legislation dealing with coastal “terminal groins.”
