Ron Paul versus the Big Government Republicans

Michael Tanner of The Cato Institute has an interesting column on Ron Paul as the choice for voters tired of big government. “If you want to register opposition to the Bush foreign policy, but aren’t willing to support the Democrats’ version of tax-and-spend government, Ron Paul is the perfect vehicle.”

Looking at the Bush record, Mr Tanner points out:

“Bush’s brand of big-government conservatism brought us No Child Left Behind, the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, and a 23-percent increase in domestic discretionary spending. It may well have cost Republicans control of Congress. After all, on election night 2006, 55 percent of voters said that they thought the Republican Party was the party of big government.”

Full column @ http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8828 

Michael Tanner is author of “Leviathan on the Right” about big government conservatism - available @ www.renbook.com