Republicans may have gone Buck Wild, but the solution is not divided government, but the establishment of an entrepreneurial, market-driven alternative to the welfare state that makes government expansion unpopular and irrelevant writes Chris Pope.
there is no standing athwart public opinion yelling ?Stop!?
We don’t need divided government, to slow spending increases. We need government unified in pursuit of market solutions. The same law that gave us Medicare drug coverage, not only did so in a relatively market-friendly way, but also made HSAs available for most of us. Under divided government, either there would have been no HSA solution or the Medicare expansion would have been larger and less market friendly. (Do you really think the president would have vetoed it?)
