I recall a Reagan era quote about a government small enough to drown in a bathtub but a military big enough to put lasers in space.
Except “small government” is the same size it just funnels money to military contractors and debt for wealthy peoples tax cuts
Sometimes I think about all of the lies I was told as a kid like “on one side people want to pay less taxes, and on the other people are willing to pay more to help others” when really it’s “cut programs that help people, pay more taxes unless you’re so rich it doesn’t matter, and actively commit as many evils as you can think of, or alternatively don’t do all that.” Like, there’s supposed to be a silver lining no matter which side wins. But no, all bad all the way down and the benefits that motivated the boomers in my life to cause this terror aren’t even happening. Weren’t groceries supposed to get cheaper or something to help the facism go down?
The small government is actually bigger, deficit is only increasing the more time GOP stays in power and was only balanced under DNC POTUS Bill Clinton.
And doesn’t investigate Tesla’s automatic driving mode.
A government just small enough to fit in your bedroom.
Should be “fuck the 99%”.
The “middle class” doesn’t think they are poor so this message will fall flat on them. In fact they might support it, because then they get to kick down on someone.
TIL the middle class is part of the 1%
They aren’t, that’s the whole point.
I think the idea is to have a small government of one dictator who tells everyone else what to do.
By this logic the perfect government is where everyone votes on everything.
Which sounds nice until you realize we’re dealing with humans who are dumb.
Dumb is better than malevolent.
Well they’re dumb and malevolent so it’s a minor improvement.
As if the people ruling over us aren’t also dumb.
Yes they are also humans.
I’m sorry, small government? Where is that happening?
Government is so small it fights inside Americans’ bedrooms. It is often small enough to squeeze directly between the legs.
What’s needed is to simplify the government to the point that people can actually understand what it does.
It’s overcomplicated, the laws are written in arcane gibberish that nobody really sees through (if you haven’t studied the laws for 20 years at least), there’s bureaucracy hell, things need to be simpler. that does not mean less government, i.e. handouts should still be paid, but it should happen in a predictable, simple way.
“But have you tried ‘raise VAT and kill all the poor’?”
Maybe his big brother hiding just behind… Big corporations.
“Things are too big! They should be smaller!” is this weird rhetorical phrasing that mostly just ends in Eugenics apologia.
“Fewer this! Smaller that!” is just a dog whistle for shrinking the number of people.
Except generally speaking… those far right small government types are actually very concerned with increasing the number of people of their own race… hence why abortion, birth control etc… are what they fight against.
They just dont’ care about feeding or keeping those people comfortable, they want them toiling away for scraps.
That big government is still there giving handouts to corporations. Small gov is accurate.
That title
You are just exchanging a belly fat government for a ass fat government. They jist store the fat in different places.
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