William Kristol, célebre neoconservador, nos recuerda una vez más que los neocones no están demasiado interesados en la reducción del tamaño del Estado, y se refiere a los "small-government conservatives" como si efectivamente no fuera uno de ellos. El artículo dice, no obstante, algunas verdades sobre el movimiento conservador americano, menos anti-estatista de lo que a muchos republicanos les gusta alardear.
Jeb Bush was a successful and popular conservative governor of Florida, with tax cuts, policy reforms and privatizations of government services to show for his time in office. Still, in his two terms state spending increased over 50 percent — a rate faster than inflation plus population growth. It turns out, in the real world of Republican governance, that there aren’t a whole lot of small-government Republicans. (...)
If you’re a small-government conservative, you’ll tend to oppose the bailouts, period. If you more or less accept big government, you’ll be open to the government’s stepping in to save the financial system, or the auto industry. But you’ll tend to favor those policies — universal tax cuts, offering everyone a chance to refinance his mortgage, relieving auto makers of burdensome regulations — that, consistent with conservative principles, don’t reward irresponsible behavior and don’t politicize markets.
Paul Mulshine escribe una buena respuesta: Kristol's column shows the true liberal bias of the New York Times.
