Columnist and author Amity Shlaes spoke to the College Republicans at the University of Missouri St. Louis today. In this clip Amity takes down a campus leftist on tax cuts and warns about skyrocketing inflation in America’s future.
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From her webpage:
In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes takes us back to show us how the roots of our disillusionment can be found in a single election year, 1936. In that year, Franklin Roosevelt systematically established the modern political constituency, from unions to artists, to senior citizens. Roosevelt’s solution was to spend for these groups, so extensively that federal spending that year outpaced state and local spending, for the first time ever in peacetime. The consequence was the Roosevelt landslide of 1936 –but also the modern entitlement trap.
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