Amity Shlaes, author of the new book, Coolidge, discusses the 30th President and how he cut federal spending and lowered taxes while remaining popular.
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Amity Shlaes on Coolidge, Budget Cuts, and Taxes
You want a modern Coolidge, vote Sarah Palin.
Coolidge was a non-interventionist and strict constitutionalist, not a dimwitted neocon.
she sounds sick
"A desire to know if a politician could cut as Coolidge did" Yes, today conservatives can vote for members of the Libertarian Party, who are ready to cut federal deficit spending, cut federal govt programs that aren't Constitutionally needed, and balance the budget.- platform 2.0 Economic Liberty
"Libertarians want all members of society to have abundant opportunities to achieve economic success. A free and competitive market allocates resources in the most efficient manner. Each person has the right to offer goods and services to others on the free market. The only proper role of government in the economic realm is to protect property rights, adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework in which voluntary trade is protected. All efforts by government to redistribute wealth, or to control or manage trade, are improper in a free society."
Go to lp.org/platform for more on the issues.
Why are they sitting so close?
Coolidge gave us a nasty 13 month recession from October 1926 to November 1927.
For balanced budgets accompanying booming economies, look to JFK-LBJ and Clinton.
The most frequent and longest-lasting recessions come from Republicans as well as record-sized deficits.
Think she's a little congested here. Get well amity
I'm not Hispanic.