[Cato's privatization effort was aimed from the start not just at dismantling Social Security but also at making major inroads against what it considered an overweening central government.] Social Security, ... is the linchpin of the welfare state. |
Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since Lyndon Johnson. And if he spends the kind of money that's being talked about here, I don't know if there will ever have been a president who increased spending as fast as this one did. |
Bush is a big government president, |
Businesses and nonprofits deal with 15% revenue losses all the time. |
George Mason is classified as a school where there are some libertarian professors, and that makes it somewhat unusual. There are a lot of colleges not welcoming to libertarians and conservatives. |
Half the stories in every newspaper should be headlined 'Stop me before I legislate again |
I don't believe in taxing the good people of Kansas, New Hampshire, and California $30 billion on the grounds that otherwise you'll tax them more later. If we actually had saved all the money that advocates of government spending had promised their programs would save, the federal budget would be negative by now. |
Social conservatives have discovered this is an issue you can win on. |
Some 6,000 special projects [in the transportation bill] are not getting any economic oversight |
The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers |
The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers |
The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers |
The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime. |
The main argument we would make is that marriage law has always been left to the states. |
There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more logical that the money should follow the people. |