NY's Gov Cuomo Cutting Spending and Taking Names

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Review & Outlook: Cuomo's Lesson for House Republicans - WSJ.com
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The Wall Street Journal argues that New York's Governor is exposing the fraud of 'baseline budgeting.'

... These cuts are impressive on their own, but Mr. Cuomo's real conceptual breakthrough is to expose the rigged-game of "baseline budgeting." This is a gambit by which spending increases automatically each year even before a Governor submits his budget. The "baseline" grows each year due to spending formulas that legislatures build into the law even before they take a single vote.

This is the kind of common sense we need in office. Who cares if he's a Dem or Republican...he's doing what needs to be done!