The Rio Grande Foundation - building a New Mexico where liberty, opportunity, and prosperity flourish
I urge all New Mexicans to get behind the Rio Grande Foundation which is organization dedicated to preserving the rights of the citizens and helping the state overcome it's political and economic problems.
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We are building a New Mexico where liberty, opportunity, and prosperity flourish.
The mission of the Rio Grande Foundation is to increase liberty and prosperity for all of New Mexico by informing citizens of the importance of individual freedom, limited government, and economic opportunity.
The Rio Grande Foundation is an economic policy think tank located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Foundation is affiliated with the U.S. nationwide State Policy Network. It was founded in 2000 by Hal Stratton, a former state representative and Attorney General of New Mexico, and Harry Messenheimer, an economist then at George Mason University. Paul Gessing became president in 2006.
The Foundation maintains a blog Errors of Enchantment, a podcast Tipping Point New Mexico, and regularly contributes opinion pieces to local newspapers, as well as publishing reports on state economic policy. Gessing has been featured on local talk shows and radio programs to discuss economic issues facing New Mexico as a whole and the greater Albuquerque area, as well as other rural communities throughout the state.
New Mexico is among the poorest states in the country. We are plagued with the lowest or near-lowest outcomes in primary education—despite the fact that we lead the Southwest region in spending per student. Progressive, big-government interests have been pouring money into our government but have been resistant to any real change in the way they operate. Transparency, accountability, and innovation have been stifled. Unsurprisingly to anyone outside the far left, spending massive amounts of money without real accountability has led to creating the most broken state government in the country.
Despite these issues, we believe that New Mexico represents the single greatest opportunity from a policy development perspective—and not just because the only way to go is up. We truly believe that what happens in New Mexico matters everywhere. We believe that New Mexico is Exhibit A of the “high cost of good intentions”—how progressive policies designed, in theory, to help the poorest among us end up disproportionately hurting low-income and minority citizens.
To stay informed on what's going on in New Mexico politics you should really listen to the Rio Grande Foundations podcast called Tipping Point New Mexico:
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