Ending Obama's Big Government Binge

James Capretta, National AffairsThe struggle to place meaningful limits on government - on its reach into economic life, its influence over how we manage our private affairs, and especially its staggering expense - has been among the most important animating principles of the Republican Party for the past half-century. But it is a struggle that even most Republican leaders would admit has not gone very well.To be sure, President Ronald Reagan’s two terms in office slowed the march toward ever more expansive government. And the transformation of the welfare system undertaken by the Gingrich Congress in 1996...

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