The congressional Republicans' recovery plan makes 100 times more sense than the tax-and-spend excess the White House and Congress will steamroll into law
During both the recession of the early 1980s and the post-9/11 economic downturn, Washington successfully used big tax cuts to revive the economy. This time the other party is running both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and we're getting some different medicine: trillions upon trillions of taxpayers' dollars spent, a reneging on the president's promise not to hike taxes on the middle class and the poor, and expiration of the Bush tax cuts.
Meanwhile, the president seems determined to establish a government health program that's sure to elbow out private plans, rob patients of their power of choice, and Frenchify American medicine.
Our inevitable entitlement crisis, festering beneath the rug under which politicians have kept it for so many years, is entirely unaddressed in the Democrats' massive tax-and-spend plans.
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