No political leader wants to be accused of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. To be blamed for doing anything, anything at all, that might so much as slow the economic growth of a community or a state.
But sometimes it is the greatest act of leadership to point out that, in addition to laying all those golden eggs, the damn goose is pooping all over everything and that it might be a good idea, not to kill the magic fowl, but to stop feeding it so much and to stop letting it wander anywhere it wants.