REVIEW AND COMMENT | Don Obama and the Medicaid Mob

If you have followed the Legislature in Florida's newspapers the past 10 days, you'd get the impression there was a crisis the size of Saturn in Tallahassee, and it's threatening to bring about the collapse of state government.

So what: Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli adjourned the House of Representatives three days before the officially scheduled end of the 2015 legislative session. And he did it without the House and Senate completing the one job they are required to do — adopt a budget before July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.

For those in the vortex of the capital, this was a big deal, even ruled a violation of the Florida Constitution. But for millions of Floridians who pay attention tangentially to Tallahassee, there is little reason to lament that lawmakers were unable to pass dozens of bills. Cynical as it may sound, taxpayers are better off that way. The less lawmakers do, the less they infringe on your freedom.