I think the phrase in bold is the fundamental answer to the original question. (politics.stackexchange.com)
I suspect a good question could be written to explore the growth or lack of growth of government once you have a solid authoritative answer to the original question. (politics.stackexchange.com)
Through the magic of editing the article ended up carrying only a small portion of our answers... so... here's the unedited answers to the original questions in all their glory;) The nice image in the corner is by (therealestaterenegades.com)