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I wish the new governor nothing but the best. Unfortunately, RI faces numerous structural obstacles that neither she nor anyone in the state legislature will confront. RI remains a state with high taxes, a poorly educated adult workforce, a high dependency rate, and burdensome regulations. Nowhere in the above article did I read the words "welfare reform", "regulation reform", "tax reform" or virtually anything else that would qualify as a "...bold idea". You want a "bold idea" that would attract business? Propose a five year phase-out of the state income tax. It was, after all, originally enacted as "temporary". In 1971. Everything else is little more than tinkering.