Colorado Senate Candidate Is Part Obama, Part Reagan
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Reagan was not for low-taxes or small government
Reagan increased taxes by making tax-paid government employees enforce church laws that ban abortion. When he did that, he "increased the size of government." His continual demand for costly weapons and Star Wars led him to leave the biggest national debt in U.S. history. He DE-REGULATED many industries, thus causing some of the financial crises we suffer today. He fired striking air controllers-- and air travel safety declined. As governor, he decreased the number of people who would have studied medicine, including cell research. He did that because, as regent of Land Grant Colleges, he made them begin CHARGING TUITION. Maybe unacknowledged Alzheimer's caused bad decisions, but it's wrong to preserve the myth that he was a genuine Pre-Goldwater conservative in the Republican Party. .
