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Our enemy, the states: the federal Republicans are okay, but the governors need to get with it.(PUBLIC POLICY)
On November 5, 1990, the first President Bush signed a tax increase into law. The event is remembered as a betrayal of Bush's campaign promise not to raise taxes, and as the mistake that, in the opinion of many, cost him reelection two years later. But the date is important in the modern history of the Republican party for another reason. Since that time, no Republican in Washington, D.C., has voted for a broad-based tax increase.
We tend to think of the Republican party as a strongly anti-tax party, but that identity is a fairly recent development. It is also a work still in progress. Anti-tax activists took over the Republican party from the top layer down, in ...
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