Rand Paul wants the government to do much, much less for the poor

In his announcement speech, Ted Cruz asked Americans to imagine a different country. But Rand Paul has done Cruz one better: he's actually budgeted for a different country.

In 2012, 2013, and 2014, Paul released detailed budgets outlining his vision for America. In these budgets, Paul does something politicians almost never do: he forces himself to map his rhetoric against reality — and the reality of Paul's budget, as my colleague Dylan Matthews wrote, is that it's "the most radical vision of limited government ever presented by a major American...