Judging by the information I'm getting on this thread, no one.
However, although most Republcians claim to support smaller government, they also tend to support government solutions as well, making no connection between the two.
So yes, it does add up. They ask what their government can do for them, without realizing that they are asking government to grow in order to answer that question.
But, yes, almost every Republican candidate sells smaller government from the campaign trail, most of them truly believing in it. At the same time however, they are also pandering for votes in competition with the left, which will later keep them from either keeping those campaign promises, or from shrinking government. They can’t do both, yet the promise to do both in order to get elected...
468 posted on 11/12/2007 7:45:46 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
I would be ecstatic to get a flat tax enacted. Not the fair tax, but a flat 15 to 20 percent tax that entirely replaces all federal taxes.
Baby steps. We didn’t turn into a socialist-lite nation overnight.
Getting a flat tax enacted will be next to impossible.