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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (282423)7/31/2002 6:33:07 PM
From: FastC6  Respond to of 769670
 
Kenneth, what is your pal Lieberman trying to hide?:

story.news.yahoo.com

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (282423)8/1/2002 9:09:43 AM
From: haqihana  Respond to of 769670
 
Kenny, Regardless of what you call the size of today's government over the government of 50 years ago, the tentacles are much longer, and there are more of them.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (282423)8/1/2002 10:12:19 AM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
re:"On a per capita basis, in real terms, the federal government today is smaller and less costly than 50 years ago."

I don't think so. You'll have to prove that to me. It might be possible that the Federal Government is slightly smaller as a percentage of GNP as compared with 1952 though. But in real terms, and per capita?-I doubt it.