Republicanos = Democratas?
Republicanos nunca foram libertários. Menos ainda em 2003...
Trechos: "The Republican Party has changed too, for the worse; it is becoming the party of big government. With the GOP in full control of the White House and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1953, nondefense discretionary spending was up an average of 9.3% in President Bush's first two years and 8.5% the fiscal year just ended. And that's before the $400 billion (think $2 trillion to $3 trillion) Medicare bill signed last week and the profligate $80 billion energy bill Mr. Bush will sign in the spring.
Both Republicans and Democrats now embrace protectionism. Mr. Bush imposed tariffs on Canadian lumber, and on imported steel --which saved 5,000 jobs in the steel production industry and cost 26,000 in steel consuming industries before they were repealed--and now on Chinese lingerie (Chinese bras are threatening America?). The Democratic Party has virtually abandoned free trade: other than Joe Lieberman, its presidential candidates are opposed to Nafta-type trade agreements. Free trade has been U.S. policy for generations, but the fundamental concept that people should be free to buy the goods they want from the supplier they choose is eroding.
And last week a wrongheaded U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld the McCain-Feingold campaign spending regulations and eroded the First Amendment's free speech clause. Federal courts and the FEC can now intervene in federal election campaigns, deciding what ads may and may not be run. And the decision invites Congress to continue its meddling."
Republicanos nunca foram libertários. Menos ainda em 2003...
Trechos: "The Republican Party has changed too, for the worse; it is becoming the party of big government. With the GOP in full control of the White House and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1953, nondefense discretionary spending was up an average of 9.3% in President Bush's first two years and 8.5% the fiscal year just ended. And that's before the $400 billion (think $2 trillion to $3 trillion) Medicare bill signed last week and the profligate $80 billion energy bill Mr. Bush will sign in the spring.
Both Republicans and Democrats now embrace protectionism. Mr. Bush imposed tariffs on Canadian lumber, and on imported steel --which saved 5,000 jobs in the steel production industry and cost 26,000 in steel consuming industries before they were repealed--and now on Chinese lingerie (Chinese bras are threatening America?). The Democratic Party has virtually abandoned free trade: other than Joe Lieberman, its presidential candidates are opposed to Nafta-type trade agreements. Free trade has been U.S. policy for generations, but the fundamental concept that people should be free to buy the goods they want from the supplier they choose is eroding.
And last week a wrongheaded U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld the McCain-Feingold campaign spending regulations and eroded the First Amendment's free speech clause. Federal courts and the FEC can now intervene in federal election campaigns, deciding what ads may and may not be run. And the decision invites Congress to continue its meddling."
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