Posted on 06/06/2004 2:44:01 PM PDT by quidnunc
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First, he halted the incremental and insidious growth in rates of taxation and indeed questioned our accepted faith in ever larger government. While deficits resulted and government itself grew nonetheless, at least he established the principle that the United States would not follow the path of European socialism, and would be aware of the peril posed by statist, utopian, pacifist, and welfare systems. That we are not like a struggling, centrally-planned France and Germany today is in large part due to his life-long warning and public service.
Second, he restored an honesty of expression in government and tried to stop the encroaching debasement of language; "tear down this wall" and "evil empire" shocked our establishment elite, but few doubted either that there really was a wall in Berlin and or that the Soviet Union was both evil and an empire. And out of that honest confidence in American exceptionalism grew a number of good things.
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