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Tax Cuts versus Big Spending


The One Argument Conservatives Have Made Against Every New Social Program
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/biden-child-tax-credit-republican-argument-spending-big-government.html
Jonathan Chait notes:
A mature governing party can make practical distinctions between market failures that require correction and government overreach. The conservative movement has never developed any interest in doing so. The Republican party won’t be able to govern until it lets go of its fear that any new social benefit would send us hurtling down the road to serfdom.
 
Republicans Love Infrastructure, Unless It’s Paid For, or Not Paid For
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/republicans-infrastructure-taxes-deficit-congress-biden.html 

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