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The Twin Evils That Menace Society

Florida’s new reformist Republican Rick Scott hever held political office before he won the governorship in the November election. His ideas sound like a good approach for us in New Hampshire too, even while noting the twin evils that menace society, "the permanent bureaucracy and government unions":

This from Steve Moore at The Wall Street Journal

"Like so many of the new GOP governors, Mr. Scott thinks that states’ financial problems can be solved by applying sound business principles…..But those trying to implement the model may crash into a wall of opposition from the permanent bureaucracy and government unions. Mr. Scott sounds more than a little naive when I ask about how hard he thinks it will be to impose alien money-saving concepts on the fifth-largest state government in America.

"For those who doubt the wisdom of his strategy to downsize government, he carries around a chart which shows, fairly persuasively, that over the past 30 years Florida has prospered when government spending was low and floundered when it was high."

The same thing doubtless holds true for New Hampshire. So get to work, all you happy warriors in the New RepublicanParty, and Godspeed!

 

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