Cut taxes, cut the size of government meddling, let the the markets fuel the economic growth, and take the resulting net gains in the revenues to pay down the debt.
Romney isn’t too bad, he’s second on the list with $16.9 billion in new spending, to McCain’s $6.9 billion.
The report makes a snarky comment about Romney being more conservative than McCain but spending more money — but I don’t think we’ve ever accused McCain of not being a conservative on government spending — it’s about the only thing where he IS really solid.
Huckabee is over $50 billion, and both major Democrats are over $200 billion.
CORRECTION, forgot to include Ron Paul.
Romney isn’t too bad, he’s THIRD on the list with $16.9 billion in new spending, to McCain’s $6.9 billion. and Ron’s -$150 billion.
I left out Giuliani because he dropped out of the race.
The report makes a snarky comment about Romney being more conservative than McCain but spending more money — but I don’t think we’ve ever accused McCain of not being a conservative on government spending — it’s about the only thing where he IS really solid.
Huckabee is over $50 billion, and both major Democrats are over $200 billion.
I really, really wish McCain were a bit more sane. I’m starting to prefer him over Romney. Yick.
Only our children will notice.
I’m surprised to learn that Rudy actually proposed a slight overall cut in spending. Maybe I judged him too harshly because of his gungrabbing history. Oh well, too late now.
I’m also surprised they are saying Ron Paul only wants to cut spending by $150 billion. From listening to him, you get the idea he wants to reverse the $1.1 trillion in annual spending growth we have seen since 2000.