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For about 20 years, conservatives have decried the size of government, entitlement programs especially. One of their long-term strategies, often called "starve the beast," is to cut taxes (and whip the foolish middle class and working poor into believing that tax cuts are in their own interests too).
Bush's 2 rounds of irresponsible tax cuts set the stage we will soon face: we will not be able to sustain our level of spending for the most basic federal programs for any civil or modern society, including health, education, and transportation.
This has always been Bush's radical agenda. It's not an accident.
2 sources:
1) "The Tax-Cut Con," by Paul Krugman, New York Times, 9/14/03
2) Worse Than Watergate, by John Dean, a recent book
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