The right is wrong.

• Author: Baughman, John Cecil
• Position: READERSWRITE - Letter to the editor

As the editor of a business magazine that promotes North Carolina, your stewardship is besmirched by allowing two sacred pages each month to a far-right-wing columnist from the John Locke Foundation, which is dedicated to redistributing wealth from the bottom to the top through tax and governance policies. In his Free & Clear column in the December issue, John Hood advocated a consumption tax that would unfairly shift the tax burden to the poor from the rich, who consume a lesser percentage of their income than the poor, who must spend their total income on consumption.

John Locke Foundation supporters such as Art Pope, who bankrolled the Wake County school board candidates who ended progressive achievements such as school integration, are a return to the days of North Carolina's original sin and a stain on the American social and political fabric. Despite Democrats having a...