Showing posts with label big government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big government. Show all posts

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Opinion | Turns Out Republicans Don’t Hate Big Government - The New York Times

With or without Trump in control, the Republican Party has a clear, well-articulated agenda. It just falls outside the usual categories. It's not that today's Republicans have a vision for "big" government or "small" government; it's that Republicans have a vision for intrusive government, aimed at the most vulnerable people in our society...

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Opinion | Kevin McCarthy shows why the era of small government is over - The Washington Post

That is how work requirements have always functioned: They're a tool to kick lots of people off their health coverage or their food assistance, but what they don't do is get anyone working in a way that benefits them. And they're the opposite of small government; they create more bureaucracy as a means of making the lives of poor people, who have less of a voice to begin with, even more difficult. 

This is just one way that the push to have government spend less money can wind up making government more punitive and intrusive in people's lives. Now, let's consider some of the other things Republicans have been doing lately…









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