MLG: Poverty is a policy choice (we agree, she and the Legislature make bad choices)
#Poverty isn’t inevitable—sometimes it’s a symptom of outdated or ineffective policies. That’s why my administration championed legislation to provide struggling families with support they need to thrive. As we head into the next session, let’s keep building on this progress. https://t.co/Xm0ebSLGDy
— Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG) January 16, 2025
We agree with the governor. Poverty is a policy choice. But, while she has made a bit of statistical progress by focusing welfare programs and the tax code on helping those with the lowest incomes, she (and the Legislature) have done nothing at all to diversify New Mexico’s economy (and reduce poverty) through broadly lower tax rates, improved regulations, and other free market policies.
In other words, lasting, effective anti-poverty measures are the result of broad economic growth driven by market-based policy reforms which (to say the least) simply haven’t happened in New Mexico under this Gov.