Small Government

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    Small Government, Direct Deposit

    ByHarlan Quill

    The small-government lecture has a remarkable shelf life: it lasts right up until the public machine starts printing something payable to the lecturer. Then waste becomes justice, paperwork becomes due process, and the same government too bloated to fix a county office copier is suddenly lean enough to route a personal benefit through patriotic plumbing.

    As a man with a library card and a bad habit of reading the fine print, I admire the accounting flexibility. Assistance for ordinary people is dependency. Oversight is red tape. Privacy is sacred, unless someone else’s records might be useful. The budget hawk does not hate government; he just wants it filed under personal expenses.

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    When Small Government Ideas Meet Big Wallets

    ByBrick Tungsten

    Ah, there’s nothing like the sweet aroma of a backyard barbecue to remind a man that small government dreams are like the perfect burger—juicy in theory, but sometimes overshadowed by a mountain of billionaire buns. The GOP once vowed to trim down Uncle Sam’s waistband, but somewhere along the line, it seems the tailor was on a billionaire’s payroll.

    It’s a funny sight indeed, watching from my lawn chair with Betsy as these deep-pocketed folks celebrate the very system they swore to pare back. My small-town aspirations of freedom and less red tape now resemble bite-sized appetizers, gulped down at a banquet where the real feast is a never-ending supply of cash flow. Sometimes, what started as a call to wield the lean shears transformed into a booming business of government expansion.

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