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To: tejek who wrote (552775)	3/2/2010 4:31:54 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574753

Again, I want to slow the growth of government because its continued growth is both unreasonable and harmful. Those aren't the only reasons, all else being equal I'd still want to avoid further increases in the power and extent of government, but the reality is that all else isn't equal. Big intrusive government causes net harm, not benefit. Its isn't irrelevant....its what happens when ideologues get their way. Not libertarian ideologues. Government continued to grow under Reagan. The ideologues who really got their way where the big spending ideologues, both in the current congress of the time, and those from decades before who passed expensive entitlement programs. Reagan did push through some deregulation, and did make a minor trim here or there in spending, but mostly we just got more and more big government. And we got deficits, but not nearly as large as the ones we have now, even after adjusting for the smaller size of the economy back then.