The Phrase "Starving the Beast" Is Used to Describe

The phrase "starving the beast" is used to describe

A) the Republican Party's strategy of reducing taxes and increasing deficits in order to win support for federal spending cuts.
B) the Democratic Party's strategy of raising taxes on wealthy individuals in order to pay for social programs that benefit those at the lower end of the income distribution.
C) Congress's strategy of slowly reducing budget appropriations for unpopular programs over the course of many years rather than ending them immediately.
D) the federal government's strategy of taking power away from state governments by imposing an increasingly large number of regulations on their behavior.