Freedom Line Blog

In a shameless attempt to post a Chris Christie item before CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik (whose recent ruminations on the possible tax advantages for LeBron James of signing with the Miami Heat no doubt swayed the King to move to South Beach), I submit this news item on the sweeping privatization proposal by the New Jersey governor’s deficit reduction task force.  According to its calculations, the commission claims it can save Garden State taxpayers $210 million per year if services like state parks, psychiatric hospitals and turnpike toll booths were run by private vendors.

Can you imagine either of President Barack Obama’s deficit reduction commission co-chairs echoing their New Jersey peer Richard Zimmer with, “The question has to be, ‘Why do you continue to operate in a manner that’s more costly and less effective?’ rather than, ‘Why change?”

Chris Christie: Change You Can Invest In.