The Perils of GOP Activism

Wall Street Journal, February 20, 1998.

Excerpt:
At the beginning of 1964, the country was at peace, the economy was humming, and vast tax revenues were burning a hole in Congress’s pocket. Sound familiar? The rhetoric of that time sounds oddly familiar too, as a growing number of Republican legislators talk about the ways in which government programs can attack the nation’s social problems.

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