Cato’s Michael Tanner on “The Voters’ Message to the GOP”:
Given a choice between two “big-government parties,” voters will choose the Democrats every time.
Have we forgotten the 2004 election already? Most of George W. Bush’s most dramatic “big-government” actions — Medicare bill, farm bill, steel tarriffs, invasion of Iraq, USA PATRIOT Act, etc. — took place during his first term. And he got re-elected. And the evidence suggests that most of those initiatives helped him.
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