Thread by @JuliusGoat

I would say that the government that imposed a Muslim travel ban, a family separation policy, sweeping deregulation of environmental protection, multiple trillion dollar giveaways to billionaires and deliberately spread misinformation about a pandemic, was also “big government.”

https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1387694786421747720

Government that spends all our money on things with zero/negative civic or social benefit = harmless benign “small” government.

Government that spends all our money on things with positive civic or social benefit = dangerous scary “big” government.

We are a country of 330 million, the 3rd most populous on earth; covering nearly 4 million square miles, the 4th largest country on the planet.

Anyone suggesting that we could have a “small” government is a lunatic or a thief.

We will always have a large government. The question is whether our large government will be effective or not.

What people mean when they say they want a “small government” is that they want our large government to be ineffective, because they see an opportunity to exploit.

Or, put another way:

What people mean when they say they want a “small government” is that they want our large government to benefits only a small percentage of the population, because they intend to be in that number.

The REAL scariest words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I have absolutely no interest in helping."

https://twitter.com/joshfrai/status/1387728413385953280?s=20