Rio Grande Foundation

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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.

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Tipping Point New Mexico

Tipping Point New Mexico is the official podcast of the Rio Grande Foundation that addresses public policy issues facing New Mexico, hosted by Paul Gessing, President of the Rio Grande Foundation, and Wally Drangmeister.

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Issues

Rio Grande Foundation: The Constitution
The Constitution
Rio Grande Foundation: The Economy
The Economy
Rio Grande Foundation: Education
Education
Rio Grande Foundation: Energy and Environment
Energy and Environment
Rio Grande Foundation: Healthcare
Healthcare
Rio Grande Foundation: Legislature
the Legislature

Errors of Enchantment

Errors of Enchantment is the official blog of the Rio Grande Foundation that addresses public policy issues facing New Mexico.

  • Why prohibit artificial intelligence in setting rents?
    by Paul Gessing
    HB 215 is yet another in a long line of bad bills relating to housing policy in New Mexico’s 2025 legislative session. The bill demands property owners not use AI in collecting, analyzing, and training an algorithm/AI on historical or contemporaneous prices, supply levels, or lease or rental contract termination and renewal dates of dwelling […]
  • HB 14: a mediocre bill goes bad
    by Paul Gessing
    Let’s be honest: the Democrats who control Santa Fe have Zero interest in growing New Mexico’s economy. They DO wish to penalize the oil and gas industry by raising taxes on them, however. Enter HB 14 which recently passed the New Mexico House. In it’s original form HB 14 was questionable. It was an increase […]
  • RGF and Fraser Institute study New Mexico lack of economic freedom: only state in the USA LOSING freedom since 1981
    by Paul Gessing
    If you were to summarize the work of the Rio Grande Foundation in one basic concept, that concept would be “Economic Freedom.” Economic Freedom is simply the ability to engage in voluntary economic transactions without government intervening in the form of taxes, subsidies, regulations, minimum wages, and other unnecessary interventions. For decades the Fraser Institute […]
  • Paid Leave & threat to donor privacy die over the weekend
    by Paul Gessing
    Well, we are pleased to support that at least for another session, a revised leave proposal (HB 11), has died. It was killed in the Senate Finance Committee Saturday on an 8-3 vote. The bill had been overhauled dramatically and received a new name, but it was still an economically-destructive bill and now it had […]

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What happened during the legislative session?

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