The Oklahoma Capitalist: The wrong foot

Saturday, March 19, 2011

The wrong foot

On Friday, Mary Fallin signed her very first bill into law as governor:

Governor Mary Fallin Signs Bill Providing Additional Funds to Department of Corrections

Okay, I get that incarcerating criminals is a legitimate function of government. I have no desire to jeapordize public safety by making it harder for the Corrections Department to do its job.

But still, couldn't Governor Fallin find another bill as her very first signing that didn't involve spending more money rather than less?

Argh.

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"The issue is not between pro-business controls and pro-labor controls, but between controls and freedom. . . . Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial history--and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of government intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State."
Ayn Rand, Notes on the History of American Free Enterprise