Salandriagado wrote:Len Hyet wrote:Oklahoma is fucked I'm not saying otherwise, I'm saying blaming a budget crisis on people who as a cornerstone of policy hold to balanced budgets is stupid.
No, they hold as a cornerstone policy pursuing certain approaches that they claim will lead to a balanced budget. You are seeing the actual real-world results of those approaches in Oklahoma.
There's is an argument to be made over whether this actually qualifies as an full implementation of such a approach or not. And if not what got in way.
But that's different from denying even the possibility of this being an attempt at Libertarianism. It seems they either do it well or it wasn't them.