Friday Opinion
Today’s Editors’ Choice
- Erick Erickson: Secular Ecclesiology
- David Limbaugh: Pros and Cons of Trump’s Budget and Cons of Dem Demagoguery
- Joe Bastardi: Is This Really the Worst Ever?
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Opinion in Brief
David Limbaugh: “Demagoguery and propaganda are enemies of good governance, but nowhere is that more apparent than in the federal budget, on which Democrats are shameless and too many Republicans are feckless. Sages from American history presciently predicted that our republic would be in jeopardy if voters acquired the power to vote themselves money from the public trough. The U.S. Constitution did not contemplate that the federal government and federal politicians would be able to secure their elective offices through legislative transfers of wealth, but the sordid practice has been with us for decades, and we are paying the price. … Liberals have an easy job. All they need to do is promise benefits and apply dishonest marketing strategies to paint themselves as caring and their opponents as ogres. They don’t need to designate how those benefits will be funded, and they slam the so-called rich for not paying their fair share — an abominably false claim.”