Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. |
Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. |
The statists want to control the economy. |
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. |
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. |
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. |
We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens. |
Obsessions turn people off. |