Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

In 1996 he served as the conservative commentator in the point-counterpoint segment of 60 Minutes. He recounts that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a volte-face. Y.

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