Tag: government spending
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Guns AND Butter
I wrote yesterday about President George W. Bush being the biggest spending president since President Lyndon Johnson. I based this on information from the Cato Institute’s recent paper, The Grand Old Spending Party: How Republicans Became Big Spenders. The paper compares Bush with prior presidents, slicing the data from different directions to see whether military…
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It’s a Grand Old Party and Can Spend if it Wants To
“George W. Bush” and “fiscal conservative” in the same sentence? Not likely. The Cato Institute recently published a policy analysis paper comparing the spending proclivities of W’s administration compared with the preceding six presidents. You can get the paper here: The Grand Old Spending Party: How Republicans Became Big Spenders. From the paper’s executive summary:…