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House Bill 2463, sponsored bv Del John M O'Bannon III — only to see it stall in the Senate. The bill would have established a new Government Efficiency Review Commission to review agencies on an eight-year cycle and advise the General Assembly on the elimination of waste and inefficiency and potential alternative sen-ice delivery methods Ideas like these need to be front and center in the next legislative session
Fiscal responsibility needs to quickly become the central public policy discussion in Virginia, because most < experts are predicting ongoing state fiscal challenges through at least 2011. Policymakers can no longer rely on gimmickry and federal handouts to avoid making the politically unpopular — but absolutely necessary — reforms to reduce the cost of Virginia government
Leonard C Gilroy is the director of government reform at Reason Foundation and a senior fellow at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy
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