Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Governor Sebelius earns a D
["Grading the Governors," NCPA Daily Policy Digest, 1 March 2005.]
Governor Sebelius did not fare well in a new report from The Cato Institute:
Researchers Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski find that the top-ranked governors have learned the dual lesson that you can't tax your way to recovery and that the best way out of a deficit is to cut spending.
According to the Cato report:
Former insurance commissioner Kathleen Sebelius ran as a fiscal moderate during her campaign for governor against incumbent Republican Bill Graves. She promised a top-to-bottom review of state government, but she refused to pledge to veto tax increases although she claimed not to favor tax hikes. Before Sebelius was inaugurated, she suggested that tax hikes would be on the horizon.
In November 2004 she set the stage for a battle over health care funding by proposing a 50-cent per pack increase in the cigarette tax. Sebelius’s expensive proposals so far are much different from the fiscal moderation she promised.
["Grading the Governors," NCPA Daily Policy Digest, 1 March 2005.]
Governor Sebelius did not fare well in a new report from The Cato Institute:
Researchers Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski find that the top-ranked governors have learned the dual lesson that you can't tax your way to recovery and that the best way out of a deficit is to cut spending.
According to the Cato report:
Former insurance commissioner Kathleen Sebelius ran as a fiscal moderate during her campaign for governor against incumbent Republican Bill Graves. She promised a top-to-bottom review of state government, but she refused to pledge to veto tax increases although she claimed not to favor tax hikes. Before Sebelius was inaugurated, she suggested that tax hikes would be on the horizon.
In November 2004 she set the stage for a battle over health care funding by proposing a 50-cent per pack increase in the cigarette tax. Sebelius’s expensive proposals so far are much different from the fiscal moderation she promised.
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