Thursday, January 3, 2013

The Triumph of Tax-and-Spend Liberalism

The resolution to the fiscal cliff crisis was fittingly perverse, containing the very prodigal spending and denial of looming deficits that caused it. Washington never fails to use a crisis to compound the underlying elements of the crisis.
This is what passes for bipartisanship in a demagogic age. Pols calculate that the full effects of a crisis won’t be felt until they’re safely out of office. So they don’t mind making it worse while pretending to solve it.

Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/01/03/the-triumph-of-tax-and-spend-l

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