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Many Conservatives DO Support the Welfare State

Here’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal:

Reading about the parade of punitive taxes that Trump is imposing on Americans who buy imports – and encountering hordes of conservatives who cheer these taxes – brings me to this conclusion: A great many American conservatives today believe to their marrow that the U.S. government acts both inefficiently and unethically whenever it taxes working people in order to increase the incomes of American households that the government has determined are performing poorly, yet this same government acts both efficiently and ethically whenever it taxes working people in order to increase the revenues of American corporations that the government has determined are performing poorly.

Apparently these American conservatives have joined the far left in rejecting logic and consistency as being passé.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Professor of Economics
and
Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030

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