Saturday, March 31, 2007

Free Markets = Free People

If their were any questions on Rudy's Free market credentials they have been answered by one other then The Free Market Leader of Our Time: Steve Forbes. I can not think of one endorsement who could bring more strength to the Rudy campaign, and I can not think of a better announcement then this awesome WSJ editorial. (here)

Rudy Giuliani is the real fiscal conservative in the 2008 presidential race.

That's why I'm endorsing him for president. Less well known is the mayor's fiscal record. Nonetheless, conservatives will find it impressive. He built New
York's resurgence not just on fundamental police work, but also on a foundation
of fiscal discipline. He cut taxes and the size of government and turned an
inherited deficit into a multibillion dollar surplus.

Mr. Giuliani entered office in 1994 with a $2.3 billion budget deficit handed to him by his predecessor, Mayor David Dinkins. Liberal conventional wisdom held that the only way to close the gap was to raise taxes while cutting back on basic city
services such as sanitation. The new mayor rejected this advice--in fact, he
famously threw the report recommending tax hikes in the trash! Instead, he set
out to restore fiscal discipline to the "ungovernable city"--and achieved
results that Reagan Republicans can applaud.

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