Cut and Expand

"Most conservatives are like Goldberg—they want to shrink spending. But most conservatives, also like Goldberg, tend to think that 'others are better qualified' to make those decisions. Conservative opinion outlets tend to subcontract out their economic thinking to a handful of polemicists, and virtually all of them are committed advocates of supply-side economics. They're theologically committed to tax cuts and don't really care about spending cuts. They studiously ignore any evidence that weakens their case—which is to say, most of the evidence."

In the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Chait looks into how cutting taxes increases the size of government.