The Last Sane Conservative

draft online edition

Bruce Bartlett (View Bio)
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Bruce's next book-in-progress. A reminder of what real conservatism is all about: truth, justice and the American way.

1. Why I voted for Obama and would do so again
2. Why I have no respect for the tea party movement
3. Why taxes have to be increased—a lot
4. Why Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man
5. Why Jack Kemp was a great man
6. Why conservatives should have supported Hillary Clinton in 2008
7. Why John Maynard Keynes was really a conservative
8. Why right-wing think tanks are no longer worth paying attention to
9. Why we should raise taxes through a value-added tax
10. Why cutting the payroll tax is a bad idea
11. Why the FairTax is a stupid idea
12. Why capital gains aren’t income and shouldn’t be taxed
13. Why the budget can’t be cut
14. Why we can’t balance the budget by cutting foreign aid
15. Why a spending limitation amendment to the Constitution won’t work
16. Why the U.S. will never default on its debt
17. Why Republicans really don’t give a damn about the deficit
18. Why the retirement age needs to be increased—a lot
19. Why budget deficits were too small in the 1930s
20. Why the stimulus bill was necessary
21. Why the economy’s problem is low spending, not high taxes
22. Why freedom means more than low taxes
23. Why becoming more like Europe isn’t so bad
24. Why budget commissions never work
25. Why libertarians have more in common with the left than the right
26. Why repealing the 16th Amendment is a dumb idea
27. Why the Libertarian Party should go out of existence to advance libertarianism
28. Why southern Democrats were the key to bipartisanship
29. Why Obama should have supported a single-payer health plan
30. Why we worry too much about money in politics
31. Why health care never would have passed without Newt Gingrich
32. Why conservatives should learn to accept the welfare state
33. Why I am not a Republican
34. Why reading a congressional bill tells you nothing useful about it
35. Why the House should be enlarged and 17th amendment repealed

Statement of Bruce R. Bartlett before the Democratic Policy Committees of the U.S. Congress, February 7, 2003

Statement by Bruce R. Bartlett before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee September 23, 2005