{"id":6058,"date":"2010-07-11T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2010-07-11T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T04:02:13","slug":"dueling-deficit-reduction-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6058\/dueling-deficit-reduction-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Dueling Deficit Reduction Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shameless attempt to post a Chris Christie item before CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik (whose <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6015\/lebron-james-and-the-tiebout-hypothesis\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent ruminations on the possible tax advantages for LeBron James<\/a> of signing with the Miami Heat no doubt <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmons\/100709\" target=\"_blank\">swayed the King<\/a> to move to South Beach), I submit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/news\/politics\/070910_Christie_looks_to_privatize_motor_vehicle_inspections.html \" target=\"_blank\">this news item on the sweeping privatization proposal<\/a> by the New Jersey governor\u2019s deficit reduction task force.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine either of President Barack Obama\u2019s deficit reduction commission co-chairs echoing their New Jersey peer Richard Zimmer with, \u201cThe question has to be, \u2018Why do you continue to operate in a manner that\u2019s more costly and less effective?\u2019 rather than, \u2018Why change?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Christie: Change You Can Invest In.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}