Wednesday, January 7, 2015

On Robert Higgs's Claim that Grover Cleveland Was the Last of the Jeffersonian Democrats

He's probably correct (the fact that Cleveland refrained - wisely, I'd say - from government involvement during the depression of the 1890s) but I would still submit that Al Smith was at least in the ballpark of one and would have been 100 times better President than Hoover and FDR combined (the fact that the guy wouldn't have proposed a 100% top tax rate, persecuted the poor Schecter brothers, instituted wage/price controls, signed Smoot-Hawley, etc.).

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