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Grading the Governors by Chris Edwards on National Review Online

As the economy heads toward recession, the nation’s governors will need to decide how to close rising budget gaps. Some governors will decide to scale back spending to balance their budgets; others will push for tax increases.

These sorts of taxing and spending decisions are tallied in the Cato Institute’s latest fiscal “report card” on U.S. governors. Each state’s chief executive was assigned a grade from A to F based on the sanity of their fiscal policies in recent years...

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