Paul Krugman Nails The Problem

[Pat Mustard]

I still like the idea of the smallest possible government. The thing is, as Min points out, that the smallest feasible government nowadays is unimaginably larger than the founders could envision at all.

There's two sorts of people who don't heed the passage of time: fools, and the dead.

Even in the time of the founding fathers a minamilist government was an unfeasible option. They found that out when their volunteer army got its collective arse handed to it when trying to annex Canada in 1812.