Now here’s the sort of talk we like to hear from a Republican governor…
“Common sense dictates that when you’re in a hole it’s vital you stop digging. Requiring our state to spend beyond its means for the next 24 months to be eligible for all the stimulus moneys guarantees that (our state) will dig itself a $740 million financial hole. Who helps us then? Do we raise taxes, and thereby weaken our competitiveness relative to other states and countries — or do we just summarily end programs for some of the neediest of our state?
“Or are we to plan on yet another round of stimulus windfall from Washington in two years — again, with money we don’t have? I don’t know the answer to these questions, but I do know the $740 million budget hole created would be the largest such hole in (our) state financial history.”
Unfortunately, that’s not Nevada’s tax-hiking Republican governor talking. It’s a true conservative Republican governor talking: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Wish there were more like him. Wish he was our governor.
