Who's the tax cutter?
The Wall Street Journal raises doubts about various GOP presidential candidates:
Our own doubts relate to his economic instincts. He's a bulwark against spending earmarks, no question. But Mr. McCain turned against the Reagan tax-cut agenda in 2000, and he voted against the Bush tax cuts of 2003. Now that those tax cuts have proven to be a spectacular success, the Senator says he wants them made permanent. But his justification is the political one that he has "never voted for a tax increase," not that he now understands his opposition was wrong on the merits. With 2008 likely to be a tax watershed, the GOP needs a candidate who can articulate a pro-growth agenda. Maybe his estimable economic advisers, former Senator Phil Gramm and former FTC Chairman Tim Muris, can steer him right.It's pretty sad when there's no Steve Forbes-style conservative running for President on the GOP side. Worse still, many of the GOP candidates - Mitt Romney chief among them - have deep reservations about allowing a free market in health care.
