Big Government Republicans Are Having Their Moment

Right on the heels of the House’s capitulation on border funding with the stopgap bill comes this remark from Nikki Haley’s big government New Hampshire cheerleader, Governor Chris Sununu:

Why is this a government issue or taxpayer’s responsibility?

Permanently lowering taxes, dramatically reducing government spending, making health care portable — these to start would go a long way in empowering families to take charge of these issues so no politician has to "invest" millions of tax dollars to "fix" a problem caused by government. It’s a sick cycle of “hurt and rescue.”

You can’t be pro-family and pro-big government. These are opposing concepts and the latter seeks to displace the former as the base unit of society. You will not find an exception to this dynamic anywhere on earth or in history. Yet somehow big government, “compassionate” republicans think that the means justify the end because their particular end is more virtuous simply because it’s theirs.

I once had a conversation as a guest on a podcast and the host proposed paying Americans to have more kids, like Hungary’s program (where the government also gave people minivans and paid mortgages to encourage a health birth rate).

“So, welfare,” was my reply, not as a statement but an observation. Except the host didn’t see it that way. No, their cause was more just — more babies! More American babies!

“How well has the welfare system worked here?” I asked, but never received a straight reply. The interview never aired.

Sununu is proposing welfare. Instead of lessening the burden big government has placed on everyone with its absurd level of spending, the proposal is more government spending to do what families should have the financial freedom to do anyway were it not for insane government spending. And he has the audacity to call it an “investment.” What is the ROI here? Taxpayers never get back what they’ve paid in from entitlement spending and this is no exception. Government spending drives everything.

And Republicans just committed to more of it in Congress.

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