Let me express my agreement with Wall Street Journal favorite, Ira
Stoll, who in "JFK, Conservative" has written a polemic showing that if
Kennedy were alive today and pursuing the policies he did during his
presidency, we would consider him a conservative.
What Stoll
means is that Kennedy was a neoconservative before his time. He was a
liberal internationalist in foreign affairs, who affirmed America's
mission to bring "human rights" to everyone on the planet. Moreover,
while Kennedy contributed to the incremental growth of the federal
welfare state, he also enacted with congressional approval a reduction
of marginal tax rates for the wealthy. He practiced supply side
economics before Reagan, the purpose of which is to increase the
government's intake of taxes by allowing more money to be invested in
the private sector.
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