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• 1) The voters want fewer taxes and more spending. (2) Citizens want honest politicians until they want something fixed.
  (3) Constituency drives out consistency (i.e., liberals defend military spending, and conservatives social spending in their own districts)....
• Hall's Laws of Politics: (1) The voters want fewer taxes and more spending.
  (2) Citizens want honest politicians until they want something fixed....
• Liberal's Investment: more taxes and more spending.
• I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
  -- Emile Henry Gauvreay...
• Spending programs are now 'investments,' taxes are 'contributions,' and these are the same people who say _I_ need a dictionary?
  -- Dan Quayle 2/19/93...
• Conservatives want to make people virtuous; liberals want to make them healthy.
  Both believe that using the state to accomplish their aims is legitimate....