This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, February 10th, 2011.

I'm Caleb Brown. State governments are struggling to maintain high levels of spending in a sluggish economy.

New Florida Governor Rick Scott says he's focusing on another goal, reducing government spending.

Scott has unveiled a budget that would cut billions of dollars out of the Florida State Budget.

He spoke at the Cato Institute's Policy Perspective Seminar held in Naples, Florida yesterday.

After his speech, I spoke with Governor Scott for a few minutes.

Something good happened, I guess a week or so ago, when Judge Vincent declared the Obamacare unconstitutional. former Attorney General Bill McCollum did a good job with that lawsuit and Attorney General Pam Bondi who if you haven't met her she's going to be a

wonderful Attorney general.

So they've done a good job and hopefully we'll get that expedited to the Supreme Court.

The real benefit of the Florida ruling

with the other states is the fact that Judge Vincent

said not only is the mandate unconstitutional,

but the whole act is unconstitutional. So that was that was much better than even the the win that we had in Virginia.

Since then what what I what I think they should be doing is they need to

they've already passed we're already being taxed.

There's six taxes that we're already being paid,

we're already paying for that bill.

They ought to repeal those and they ought to stop

the rollout of the 18 additional taxes and higher fees

They're coming for that bill so because I mean it's it's it's it's they called it unconstitutional

So it shouldn't there's we're not the state of Florida. We're not going to put any effort into implementing that and I think every other state ought to do the same thing

The next the next focus that we have at the state is trying to make sure everybody in the state understands what debt the state has, get everybody focused on to make sure that we're going to continue to reduce our

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