Big Government Republicans Are Having Their Moment DANA LOESCH JAN 19

You can’t be pro-family and pro-big government. These are opposing concepts and the latter seeks to displace the former as the base unit of society. You will not find an exception to this dynamic anywhere on earth or in history. Yet somehow big government, “compassionate” republicans think that the means justify the end because their particular end is more virtuous simply because it’s theirs. I once had a conversation as a guest on a podcast and the host proposed paying Americans to have more kids, like Hungary’s program (where the government also gave people minivans and paid mortgages to encourage a health birth rate). “So, welfare,” was my reply, not as a statement but an observation. Except the host didn’t see it that way. No, their cause was more just — more babies! More American babies! “How well has the welfare system worked here?” I asked, but never received a straight reply. The interview never aired. Sununu is proposing welfare. Instead of lessening the burden big government has placed on everyone with its absurd level of spending, the proposal is more government spending to do what families should have the financial freedom to do anyway were it not for insane government spending. And he has the audacity to call it an “investment.” What is the ROI here? Taxpayers never get back what they’ve paid in from entitlement spending and this is no exception. Government spending drives everything. And Republicans just committed to more of it in Congress.