Dear candidates: Where are the spending cuts?

Published November 12, 2015 5:01am ET



By the time you finish reading this sentence, the federal government will have spent almost $500,000 of taxpayer money.

Republicans are the party of limited government, which is why it’s not surprising that more than half of their presidential candidates have released specific plans to cut taxes. But there’s more to limited government than the amount of money government takes from its people. It’s necessary to ask candidates, “Where are your spending cuts?”

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