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Should Conservatives Support Bush?: The President Has Abandoned Us
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CURRENT ISSUES
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4 / 1992 |
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Howard Phillips
Howard Phillips is chairman of The Conservative Caucus (TCC)
and editor of the weekly Issues and Strategy Bulletin,
published by his consulting firm, Policy Analysis, Inc. |
For years, conservatives have been encouraged to vote for the "lesser of two evils," implicitly accepting the notion that their political role is to "lose as slowly as possible." The alternative to "losing fast" with the Democrats has been to "lose slowly" with the Republicans. But, either way, we have been losing.
Nowhere is the record of our defeat more clearly measured than in the politics of the past three decades. When John F. Kennedy took office in 1961, total federal outlays amounted to less than $100 billion annually. Now, George Bush has proposed a $1.5 trillion budget.
In 1961, the American tax-payers coughed up $6.8 billion in interest on the national debt; but, in fiscal year 1991, debt service cost $306 billion. Individual income taxes rose from $41.3 billion in 1961 to $468 billion in 1991. Corporate taxes were up from $20.9 billion to $98.1 billion, excise taxes from $11.8 billion to $42.4 billion, and Social Security taxes, placing an extraordinary burden on every American worker and employer, climbed from $16.4 billion to $370.5 billion.
Thirty years ago, the Great Society was merely a gleam in the eyes of neo-Marxist strategists. Today, in an expanded version, it is an integral part of the agenda of a supposedly "conservative" Republican president.
Since 1961, Democratic and Republican presidents have established and steadily increased the funding for such entities and agencies as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Legal Services Corporation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency the National Endowment for the Humanities, PBS, and a whole lot more.
Taxes For Perversion
Our taxes, to the tune of billions of dollars, have been assigned to Planned Parenthood, Gay Men's Health Crisis, and other entities that promote homosexuality, abortion, and pornography--and all with the approval (as attested by their signatures on the appropriations bills) of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush.
It is long past time for conservatives to stop acquiescing--or even complaining--and to begin providing an alternative to policies with which they profoundly disagree, but which they have complacently supported
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