Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann decried overreach by the federal government during a Dallas County GOP dinner here Thursday night.
Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, sounded economic themes, blaming government intervention into markets as the cause of economic decline of the last few years. To grow manufacturing and spur recovery, the government must cut corporate taxes, reduce federal regulations and enable more domestic energy production, he said.
“Yes, our economy is in shambles – why? Because government is crushing it, oppressing it, taxing it, regulating it,” he said.
Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, made a more direct attack on incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama, excoriating the federal health-care law passed in 2010 that she refers to as “Obamacare” and blasting government spending since 2009. The law places “dictatorial power” in the hands of the president, Bachmann said, provides federal funding for abortion and could ultimately limit access to care.
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