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Description: In search of the Unified Theory of Conservatism
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, because the Earth still won’t stop spinning too quickly for me to do all the things I want to do in a day. But there was too much good stuff I wanted to include with my latest RGJ column that I just didn’t have the space for.
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The biggest is really this – just as lower taxes do not necessarily equal lower spending (or less government), higher taxes do not also necessarily mean more spending (or bigger government). You can lower rates and see an increase in revenue due to increased economic activity (such as the deficit reducing and economy stimulating Bush Tax Cuts). Or you can raise tax rates and see revenue actually shrink. Or, sometimes you raise revenue for some very necessary public infrastructure improvement (better scho
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