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Is the Era of Big Government Back?--Stuntz

By David Skeel and Bill Stuntz

Everyone seems to think so, thanks to the financial crisis.  I wonder.  I have a short article about to come out in The Weekly Standard suggesting otherwise.  The link is here.

Early in his first Administration, Bill Clinton turned to his economic advisers and said: "we're all Eisenhower Republicans here"--because the need to bring down the deficit was driving his budget and tax policies in directions he didn't like.  Seems to me, the forces driving a future President Obama or McCain in the same direction will be a good deal stronger in 2009.

Full post as published by Less than the Least on October 18, 2008 (boomark / email).