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Big Government, Congressman Ryan, and Student Loans

Big Government, Congressman Ryan, and Student Loans

Second, and perhaps most importantly:  Why on earth are the Republicans buddying up with big-government champions like the New America Foundation in trying to protect this obvious, shameless, beltway monstrosity?  Is this what the rank and file conservative Republicans can expect from their leadership in the House going forward?  If so, I recommend strongly that they be immediately replaced, by true conservatives not infected by the bureaucratic, beltway sickness that seems to have enveloped both parties on this issue and others.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.