Recently I had occasion here to praise South Carolina’s Mark Sanford for his desire to drop the costly and ineffective National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification.
Here is another article lauding him. The author, Mallory Factor, points out that Sanford doesn’t just make a show of cutting taxes, but also does something much harder: he cuts spending. Tax cuts without spending cuts can’t do much good for, as Milton Friedman used to point out, the measure of governmental drag on the economy is not what it taxes, but what it spends. That is, we must look at the degree to which limited resources are diverted from the private sector and placed in the hands of politicians.
