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If wishes were fishes, policies would need to beware the BP blowout.

So in Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott celebrated the corporate tax-credit voucher program and said he wants to expand vouchers. I wonder if he understands existing Florida law, because the corporate tax-credit voucher program acquired authority this spring to expand without additional legislative action, but it depends on the Florida corporate income tax, which Scott would like to abolish. And creating any other voucher programs would raise the question of how far the 2006 Bush v. Holmes decision goes in terms of the larger voucher programs that it had not abolished (the 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision struck down the failing-school voucher program, which was very small in numbers of participating students). 

Sometimes gubernatorial candidates and governors say what they want and their wishes come true. Sometimes they don't. And sometime you can get both at the same time: in 2007, Governor Charlie Crist said he wanted property taxes to drop like a rock in the worst way, and they have.