Archive for John Hood
The Mythology of State Spending
John Hood is publications and research director of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a columnist for Spectator (N.C.) magazine.
In 1991, 30 states facing budget deficits raised income, sales, excise, and other taxes a total of $17 billion, with more tax increases promised for 1992 and beyond.
Most commentators blamed Federal [...]
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Case of Repetitive Motion injuries
John Hood is publications and research director for the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a columnist for Spectator (N. C.) magazine.
One of the hottest issues on the social activism circuit is “repetitive motion injury.” It refers to any of several workplace hazards of the modern economy: stress on arms and shoulders [...]
Boom Time for State and Local Government
John Hood is a columnist for Spectator magazine in Raleigh, North Carolina, and publications director of the John Locke Foundation, a state-policy think tank.
If the press has anything to do with it, the 1990s will be a decade of higher taxes and government expansion in America. The last year or so has seen article [...]
Let the Market Protect Consumer Safety
John Hood is contributing editor of Reason magazine and political columnist for Spectator magazine in Raleigh, N.C.
You’re the new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It has come to your attention that a number of children under 5 years of age have been poisoned by overdoses of aspirin. A research associate comes up [...]
America Needs Organic Farming–And Pesticides
John Hood is a contributing editor of Reason magazine.
Organic farming is all the rage these days. After a spring of food scares and a summer boomlet of environmentalism, a report issued last September by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has quickly become revealed truth to legions of editorial writers, public officials, and farming [...]
Gray Markets and Greased Pigs
John Hood is a reporter/researcher at The New Republic.
Hailing a taxi in Boston can be tricky It helps to be pushy, even rude. Tight city regulation of taxicabs has kept their number at 1,525 since 1934. Because government has prevented supply from rising to meet growing demand, there’s an artificial taxi shortage.
But the [...]
Why College Costs Are Rising
John Hood is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he founded and edits The Carolina Critic, a student journal of opinion. A graduate of the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C.. Hood was an intern lust summer at Reason magazine, and is a newspaper columnist in North Carolina.
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
