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The GOP legislators who controlled what Harry Truman called the "Do Nothing Congress" of 1947-48 blocked national health insurance, repealed wartime price controls and food stamp programs, and enacted TaftHartley. If nothing is done," Norquist writes, "even if no new taxes are raised, no new spending programs invented, the simple growth of federal government spending driven by the existing entitlement programs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and the aging of the baby boomers will drive federal spending from 20 percent of the economy to 40 percent by 2050.
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All Taxpayers Left Alone
All Taxpayers Left Alone Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives by G rover G. Norquist (HARPERCOLLINS. 338 PAGES, $26.95)
Reviewed by W. James Antle IIIIN THE COURSE OF A LONG New Yorker profile of John McCain, Ryan Lizza stopped to survey the latest literature on how Republicans can escape electoral oblivion. Lizza noted that several of these books "reject the anti-government ethos that has come to define conservatism." Revise that to say "the limited government ethos th...See the full content of this document
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