A Choice Not An Echo by Phyllis Schlafly (1924 - 2016)
Posted on 09/06/2016 9:41:18 AM PDT by OddLane
The Republican Party likes to present itself as the party of free enterprise. One of the enormous benefits of a free market is that it allows for experimentation in finding solutions to personal and social needs. If a man invents a better mousetrap, everyone benefits while he grows wealthier for it. If he has a bad idea, the costs are his alone to bear. This is the precise opposite of government bureaucracy, where the costs are borne by the taxpayers and the benefits transferred to corporations via lobbying.
Given that, one would think that the GOP would look at the actual data to see what strategy works and what doesn’t. Yet that isn’t the case in practice. Take the issue of reigning in spending, supposedly a defining issue for any Republican. In the last 35 years, the only times budgetary concessions have been wrested from the left were via utter Republican intransigence (namely, the Gingrich Federal government shutdown and the debt-ceiling crisis of 2011).
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