The Taxpayers’ Relentless Sentinel

Thanks to Silvio Dell’Angela for rallying the public in opposition to the streetcar nonsense.

Streetcar Fraud

Update 11/21/06: Thanks to a couple of observant readers who noticed that “500 adult residents” of ABQ should read “500k adult residents.” I have changed “500″ to “half-million” for clarity. Thanks for the help.
My remarks at yesterday’s streetcar rally:
Last Wednesday the mayor’s spokesman wrote an opinion piece arguing for the streetcar initiative. The piece [...]

Regardless of Election Results, Americans Still Want Smaller Government

Although it would be easy to interpret the Democratic Party’s victory as a call by voters for bigger government, a new opinion poll clearly shows that while the American people have been frustated by the foibles of Republicans, their votes for change should not be confused with favoring higher taxes or more government spending. [...]

Recriminations and Analysis

As Democrats ascend to power and Republicans begin picking up the pieces of electoral defeat, there is a lot of spin going on as to what the big issues were that caused the Republicans to lose Congress. One particularly confusing bit of “analysis” was recently performed by the folks over at the Republican Main Street [...]

Richardson Agrees: Tax Cuts In Order for New Mexicans

We at the Rio Grande Foundation have had our share of problems with some of Governor Richardson’s economic policies, but we wholeheartedly agree with his recent assertion that tax cuts are in order here in New Mexico. That said, however, if the purpose of cutting taxes is economic growth, his narrowly-targeted proposal will have a [...]

United States Bankruptcy

We are quickly going broke according to economist Larry Kotlikoff. Kotlikoff
concludes that countries can go broke, that the United States is going
broke, that remaining open to foreign investment can help stave off bankruptcy, but that radical
reform of U.S. fiscal institutions is essential to secure the nation’s economic future. The paper
offers three policies to eliminate the [...]

Spending — the Richardson Record

New Mexico has been on a spending spree over the last four fiscal years. The Richardson record is now clear: The general fund budget has increased by 31.2 percent. When adjusted for inflation and population growth, the budget has grown by 13 percent. That means New Mexico is spending 13 percent more in current [...]

New Mexico’s Pigs

Sadly, and typical of New Mexico politics, our Cong are at or near the bottom of the rankings in the fight against pork barrel spending. See the nationwide Club for Growth’s rankings here (a score of 19 is perfect, meaning that that particular Cong voted for 19 out of 19 anti-pork meaures). New Mexico’s scores [...]

New Mexico’s Representatives Receive Mediocre Ratings from Club For Growth

The latest round of Congressional ratings on fiscal issues have been published and New Mexico’s representatives in Washington again receive low marks. In the 2005 ratings published by the Club for Growth, Representative Stevan Pearce scored the highest in the House with a ranking of 172 out of 435, while Senator Domenici was our highest-ranking [...]

A New “Surprise” for NM Taxpayers!?

According to USA Today taxpayers nationwide “will soon get a surprise bill that could exceed $1 trillion for the cost of paying future medical benefits for state and local workers who retire.” I wonder what NM’s bill will be??? This will be fun to watch taxpayer reaction.
HT: Asymmetrical Information

Capitol Report New Mexico
New Mexico Watchdog


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