We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.
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What they don't have are unreasonable expectations of what can be moved through Congress.
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But when it was time to aim for the White House, it was crucial that he get the tax music exactly right the whole strategy depended on it, and not just for winning the primaries. If conservatives came to think Bush was an ardent tax cutter, they would be willing to let him roam much closer to the center on just about everything else to win the heart of independents. He moved the party on immigration and education, ... but no Republican could have abandoned tax cuts and won the primary, or the general.
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If you are perceived as hostile to the immigrant community, you will not only lose their vote for this generation but for the next four generations. That's what we cannot do with Hispanics.
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