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This is episode 852 of the Rio Grande Foundation's Tipping Point New Mexico.

I'm Paul Guessing.

I'm president of the Rio Grande Foundation, New Mexico's free market think tank.

You can find out more about the foundation at riograndefoundation.org. I'm very pleased to be joined this week by Bob Perls.

He is a former state representative.

If there's more competition, you hold people accountable, you hold incumbents accountable, and in fact, you have more representative government.

And so if we're spending... fraction of one thousandth of one percent for the good possibility of more representative government I say let's do it let's give it a go

all right well I'll start with the idea that you and I are reasonable people and it's not surprising that we don't a lot of our disagreements are on the process not on what we're ultimately talking about in terms of outcomes I in the Rio Grande Foundation.

This is episode 851 of the Rio Grande Foundation's Tipping Point New Mexico.

I'm Paul Guessing.

And I'm Wally Drangmeister.

I'm president of the Rio Grande Foundation, New Mexico's free market think tank.

You can find out more about the foundation at riograndefoundation.org. Wally, we're going to be chock full of Deb Haaland, Greg Hall information in this particular episode.

episode given that we're here under a month out from the general election and that is a huge driver of the news cycle as we sit here right now.

and that she was throwing up smoke screens, it would have been another means of Hall hammering it in there to make it 100% clear and obvious that she was the one ducking.

But it is what it is.

This is episode 850 of the Rio Grande Foundation's Tipping Point New Mexico.

I'm Paul Guessing, president of the Rio Grande Foundation, New Mexico's free market think tank.

You can find out more about the foundation at riograndefoundation.org. I'm very pleased to be joined by two guests this week.

One is Robert Aragon and the other is Janice Arnold Jones.

But this is essentially a press release from the county under Daphne Orner's name, who's the chair.

And so basically, I'm going to work through, there's eight different policies, and I'm going to work through each of them.

And I will then... give you the Rio Grande Foundation's take on each of these issues, and then we can kind of hash them out briefly for a few

minutes.

This is episode 849 of the Rio Grande Foundation's Tipping Point New Mexico.

I'm Paul Guessing.

And I'm Wally Drangmeister.

I'm president of the Rio Grande Foundation, New Mexico's free market think tank.

You can find out more about the foundation at riograndefoundation.org. Now, Wally, before we get into our list, long list of topics for this week's show, I want Friday night was a celebration, a gala put on by the Rio Grande Foundation.

It was our second major event like that.

Last year was our 25th anniversary of the Rio Grande Foundation.

That was the impetus behind that event.

This is episode 848 of the Rio Grande Foundation's Tipping Point New Mexico.

I'm Paul Guessing, president of the Rio Grande Foundation, New Mexico's free market think tank.

You can find out more about the foundation at RioGrandeFoundation.org.

I am very pleased to be joined for this episode by Jonathan Williams, longtime friend, but also vice president of the American Legislative Exchange Council's Center for State Fiscal Reform.

Thanks for your time, Jonathan.

And thanks for listening to this week's episode.

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And then it was going to grow over time.

You know, Paul Gessing from the Rio Grande Foundation put out an economic report on the impact that that bill would have over the next decade.

I think like 15 years.

And so I'd have to go back and look at that.