Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
