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Originally Posted by tony299
Government is never going to get smaller. It's a buzz word to get elected.
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Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power - and usually all three. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans. Include regulations and foreign policy, as well as budgets approved by a Republican Congress, and a picture begins to emerge of the Republican Party as a reliable engine of government growth.
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http://mises.org/daily/895