Comments on: How Big Is the Federal Government?

By: Has government gotten bigger or smaller? Both. | Speculative Thinker

Has government gotten bigger or smaller? Both. | Speculative Thinker — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:28:31 +0000

[...] P.P.S. Measuring government size poses other challenges. Eric Toder and I discuss several in our paper “How Big is the Federal Government?” Perhaps most important is that governments now do a great deal of spending through the tax code. Traditional spending numbers thus don’t fully reflect the size or trend in government spending. For more, see this earlier post. [...]

By: Has Government Gotten Bigger or Smaller? Yes. « Donald Marron

Has Government Gotten Bigger or Smaller? Yes. « Donald Marron — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:01:12 +0000

[...] numbers thus don’t fully reflect the size or trend in government spending. For more, see this earlier post. Share this:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailDiggRedditStumbleUponPrintLike this:LikeBe the first to [...]

By: jimmy Kay

jimmy Kay — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:01:01 +0000

The government big enough to give you everything you want is large enough to take everything you have. and powerful enough to do what it wants, whenever it wants. A weak federal government was a beautiful feature of our founding fathers not a mistake or flaw.
The current government destroys everything it touches including civil rights and liberties.It is the primary edifice of crony capitalism and the financial fraud that permeates our lives.

By: Report: Gov’t May Be Bigger Than You Think | Tennesseans Watching Federal & State Government

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:20:58 +0000

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By: Report: Gov’t May Be Bigger Than You Think | Being 1732

Report: Gov’t May Be Bigger Than You Think | Being 1732 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:26:34 +0000

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By: Size Does Matter

Size Does Matter — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:56:56 +0000

[...] you’re reading things you might want to take a look at this post and its linked paper by Donald Marron. In the paper Mr. Marron suggests that the federal government may actually be [...]

By: Brooks (Gordon)

Brooks (Gordon) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:32:16 +0000

Thanks for educating people on this point, Donald. Indeed, it’s important that people realize that reducing subsidies in tax expenditure form is more similar to reducing spending than to increasing tax rates (a “tax increase”). I look forward to your subsequent post.

By: William J McKibbin

William J McKibbin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:02:07 +0000

The rape and pillage of the private sector by the public sector must end — if that means civil war, so be it…