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By Peter Roff
Fellow, Institute for Liberty/Former Senior Political Writer, United Press International
On Saturday Jack Kemp, one of the intellectual engines that propelled Reagan-era conservatism forward as a mainstream political idea, died after a long battle with cancer. Forever youthful, energetic into his 70s and JFK-like in his passion for ideas, Kemp helped reshape the Republican Party in ways that strengthened its appeal to middle- and working-class voters.
With an almost singled-minded devotion to the American ideal, in the 1970s Kemp became a most enthusiastic supporter of supply-side economics, a theory that essential held that allowing people to keep more of what they earned by cutting tax rates would fuel growth in the economy.
History has proved him right. Today, throughout the world, the supply-side theory is a revealed truth to all those who value hard work, initiative and, above all, liberty.
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