The Most Dangerous Virus Today Is Runaway Government Spending

The Most Dangerous Virus Today Is Runaway Government Spending
U.S. dollar banknotes are seen through a printed stock graph in this illustration taken on Feb. 7, 2018. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Stephen Moore
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When I came to Washington, D.C., in 1985, Ronald Reagan was president. I was working for the Reagan budget office. We did something we weren’t very proud of at the time. We introduced the first $1 trillion budget in American history, which was unthinkable. One trillion dollars. There are 12 zeroes in a trillion. A trillion is a million dollars times a million. The budget deficit hit $200 billion and 6 percent of our entire GDP. Again, unthinkable.

Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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