WorldNetDaily
by Pat Buchanan

09/26/05

The Taft-Goldwater-Reagan-Helms Republicans were prepared to pay the political price for saying 'No.' But just as the Democrats of the 1930s found the formula for permanent power in 'tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect,' as Harold Ickes Sr. put it, the Bush Republicans and Big Government conservatives of the 1990s believe they have found an even surer formula for permanent power: 'Cut taxes, spend and spend, elect and elect.' Whether they have or not we will discover in the fall of 2006, but already the battle is being joined inside the GOP, and it will be fought out in the primaries of 2008: deficit hawks vs. Big Government conservatives. One day, not far off, Americans must choose: Either we keep the empire -- or our munificent welfare state. Either we raise taxes and pay as we go -- or we run deficits until foreigners cease to lend us the money and the dollar goes the way of the peso...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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