Corrupting influences Hybrid tax not unfair

Re Sunday Perspective cover article: The moral authority of children? Perhaps children under the age of 10. Much later than that and it appears any moral authority that the youngsters may have possessed has been sorely corrupted by numerous and varied influences including but not limited to hormones, TV entertainment/news, friends, parents, etc.

Not mentioned, but I believe probably the most corrupting influence for the children(?) of high school and college age, is teachers. Today’s predominantly leftward tilt of young people’s political opinions must be squarely placed at the feet of their high school and college instructors whose progressive, socialistic notions are readily accepted by naïve students all too eager to readily espouse radical political judgments upsetting to parents and established society.

RICK JOHNSON

Ratcliff

A recent letter to the editor complained about the new tax on hybrid vehicles. The purpose of the tax is to make the ones who drive on the state roads pay for the upkeep and construction of them.

My gas car may weigh twice that of the hybrid, but my gas tax is a multiple several times the flat fee hybrid owners pay. Plus the electricity that powers his car is generated by a plant that puts pollutants in the air.

I don’t think the tax is unfair at all. DAVID PHILLIPS SR.

North Little Rock