Fiscal Conservatives Favor Kerry

Doug Badow, a senior fellow at the notoriously conservative Cato Institute, puts forth a well-reasoned argument about why Republicans should vote Democrat in 2004: "This year big-spending George W. Bush and the GOP Congress turned a budget surplus into a $477 billion deficit." Badow writes that fiscal responsibility is often the causality when one party controls both Congress and the White House: "The biggest impetus for higher spending is partisan uniformity, not partisan identity. Give either party complete control of government, and the Treasury vaults are quickly emptied. . . So how do we put Uncle Sam on a sounder fiscal basis? Vote Democratic."

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