The Republicans fought it, defeated it, gained control of Congress, and proceeded to enact the Clinton plan piece by piece. Republican Congressmen accuse Clinton of stealing their ideas, even as they plagiarize all the pork-barrel policies of the Democratic Congress. Meanwhile government gets bigger, more expensive, more intrusive, more destructive, and more dangerous. The twin parties have become so hopelessly corrupted by power and the perqs of governing that our only hope is a third party still too young, healthy, and principled to be infected by their dishonesty and political extortion. Harry Browne is a Senior Editor at Liberty magazine, and was the 1996 presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party .
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