This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, March 8th,

2023. I'm Caleb Brown.

New Hampshire consistently ranks high on Cato's freedom in the 50 states.

New Hampshire's governor, Chris Sununu, perhaps not surprisingly,

also fares well on Cato's fiscal policy report card. Last month I spoke with Sununu about

a wide range of topics from the exportability of New Hampshire's consistent

respect for freedom to police accountability to US support for the war in Ukraine.

New Hampshire is tops consistently in the freedom in the 50 states. You are near the top pretty

consistently in Cato's fiscal policy report card for America's governors. How much of that is

replicable outside the wonderful libertarian utopia.

Lowercase L libertarian.

That's right, that's right, that's right.

That's how I've heard it described.

You know, outside of New Hampshire, how much of the...

Yeah, how much does the model translate, right?

Yeah.

A lot of it, a lot of it.

And you know, one thing I'll say is, you know, we have our motto, our

Live for your die motto, and you guys I think I've heard me say before it's more

than four words on a license plate right it really is kind of the core of the values

that we try to live by especially in the public sector so it drives fiscal

discipline and drives local control limited government even in cases when we might not

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