From George Will’s column last week:
“Daniels has practiced the lean government he preaches. Under him, Indiana has its fewest state employees since 1978, the nation’s lowest state government employment per capita, lowest effective property taxes and third-lowest per-capita spending.”
His tenure at OMB and his two terms as Governor of Indiana have shown me that he walks the walk when it comes to fiscal realism. He will disappoint on a number of social/values fronts (primarily because he will not address them in a campaign in order to attract the Reagan Democrats and independents who see the economic and national security issues as eclipsing everything else at this time). I will be anxious to see if immigration reform/enforcement is a plank in the national security platform, which I expect.
That's an amazing statistic. I wonder if there's even one other state in the country that can make the same claim. If Daniels is a "RINO", I wish they were all RINOS - less government spending, lower taxes, less government employees per capita - yeah, that's horrible /s