If it were up to me, the contrast would involve baking more pies rather than “growing” pies. Nevertheless:
“He wants to quote ‘spread the wealth around,’” McCain said in a campaign speech in Pennsylvania Tuesday. “He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs and opportunities for all Americans. Sen. Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than he is in growing the pie.”
Ben Furnas takes a look at the contrasting availability of pie during the relatively high-tax, high-service Clinton years and during the relatively low-tax, low-service Bush years:
And this Clinton-Bush isn’t a one-off. As is becoming better known in the research community, economic growth is consistently stronger under Democratic Presidents’ relatively more egalitarian policies.
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