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LiberalFighter

(50,826 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 08:30 PM Jan 2012

Big Government is a Lie. Republicans lie about government size.

Has anyone, especially Republicans ever provided the data to support their claim? Size should never be an absolute number pushed out there as they do when they say that a project, regulation or taxes will cost X billions of dollars. When the actual cost per person is substantially much less and that cost should be used instead of a grand total of everybody.

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Big Government is a Lie. Republicans lie about government size. (Original Post) LiberalFighter Jan 2012 OP
Republicans lie about EVERYTHING Prophet 451 Jan 2012 #1
Ask them this zipplewrath Jan 2012 #2
Repugs want smaller gov't until spartan61 Jan 2012 #3
Repugs need bigger gov't anytime they're running it. Saving Hawaii Jan 2012 #4

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
2. Ask them this
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 09:01 PM
Jan 2012

When they controlled both houses of congress and the White House, how much smaller did the federal government get? Who was the last president to shrink the government?

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