{"id":8285,"date":"2011-01-13T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2011-01-13T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:58:17","slug":"hoosier-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8285\/hoosier-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoosier President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Mitch Daniels (R-IN) delivered his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/01\/13\/doing_the_peoples_business_while_living_within_the_peoples_means_108528.html\" target=\"_blank\">State of the State Address<\/a> on Tuesday night to a joint session of the state legislature.\u00a0 Among several terrific proposals to make government leaner and more efficient, Daniels suggested the following fiscal policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And, to hasten the return of an even stronger fiscal position, I again ask you to vote for lasting spending discipline by enacting an automatic taxpayer refund. When the day comes again when state reserves exceed 10 percent of annual needs, it will be time to stop collecting taxes and leave them with the people they belong to. Remember what the Hoosier philosopher said: &#8220;It&#8217;s tainted money. \u2018Taint yours, and \u2018taint mine.&#8221; Beyond some point, it is far better to leave dollars in the pockets of those who earned them than to let them burn a hole, as they always do, in the pockets of government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans in Washington, D.C. and around the country should be listening to the Hoosier State governor who just might be the right man for the presidency in 2012.\u00a0 Check out the entirety of Daniels&#8217; speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/01\/13\/doing_the_peoples_business_while_living_within_the_peoples_means_108528.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Mitch Daniels (R-IN) delivered his State of the State Address on Tuesday night to a joint session of the state legislature.\u00a0 Among several terrific proposals to make government leaner and more efficient, Daniels suggested the following fiscal policy: And, to hasten the return of an even stronger fiscal position, I again ask you to [&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":[914,1097,2273,781,913,2272],"class_list":["post-8285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-fiscal-conservative","tag-hoosier","tag-indiana","tag-mitch-daniels","tag-tax-refund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285","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=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8289,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/8289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}