May 19, 2006 3:45PM 

# Beast-Starving 

By [Radley Balko](https://www.cato.org/people/radley-balko) 

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[Over at *NRO*](http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzAwMWJmMjE2M2UwN2YyNjI3NDIyZTI5ZWQyMWY1NGE=), Nick Schulz answers a few pundits who’ve been citing Cato Chairman William Niskanen’s “starve the beast” research to call for an end to tax cuts.

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