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deutsey

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15. It was Norquist, after all, who said:

Reply to KeepItReal (Reply #14)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 10:36 AM

Jan 2015

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

It was the design behind Reagan's trickle-down "trojan horse" (as Reagan's Director of OMB called it).

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