JLF research attracts attention

The John Locke Foundation is no fan of targeted tax incentives that force most taxpayers to subsidize the business of a select few. JLF’s assessment of incentives in the recent Agenda 2008 report attracted the attention of Lenoir City Councilman Timothy Rohr, who cited that assessment in a recent letter to the Lenoir News-Topic. Meanwhile, the Fayetteville Observer recently published an opinion article from Eli Lehrer, author of a JLF report on North Carolina’s misguided auto insurance rate-making process. Lehrer’s new article urged customers to be wary of news that auto rates had recently been “cut.” Another topic that attracted recent scrutiny from Locke researchers was “affordable housing.” Research intern Abby Alger, who contributed to that report, recently submitted a letter to the Chapel Hill News questioning the value of government-run affordable housing programs. JLF Legal and Regulatory Policy Analyst Daren Bakst has spent much of his time focusing on issues related to annexation and eminent domain. That work attracted positive attention recently from Brian Irving, a Libertarian legislative candidate with a blog called “Liberty Point.”