Does smaller government really mean better government?

No, smaller government doesn't mean good government. But, big government does mean bad government. You either get a bunch of programs to squeeze our rights a little more, or you can just have a bunch of people not doing anything.....while collecting our tax money. There is nothing a bigger government has to offer my life.

Everything a government should be doing can be done by a small government. Look at it this way, if you have some good government, you won't be hurt by cutting out the bad parts to make it into a good and small government. If you have a bad government, you won't be hurt by making it smaller and weaker.

In my opinion smaller government meant "local government". Remember town meetings? Taxes would be collected to take care of the local inhabitants.

More money would stay in the pockets of the earning population depending on voluntary care for the local needy.

There were County Hospitals where doctors were paid to serve people on a part time voluntary basis or were paid for clinic time.

There was a great savingsd as there was no middleman to collect and no bureacracy in charge.

The greater number of hands that files and information pass through the greater the costs.

Gone are the days when you could go to a clinic, wait for hours pay your two dollars and see a doctor.

The pharmaceutical companies are an example. Why do they advertise in magazines when the products that they advertise are only available by perscription?

They have a stranglehold on all phases of medicine, from medical schools to what the doctor can prescribe.

The government when it is so large takes on a situation where earmarks are used like carrots on a stick in front of reps to buy their votes. Lobbyists make deals too.

In a small government situation these folks would have no power, or little power because the vote would come directly from the people at the local level and they would only "buy" what they could afford. There would be no wasteful research on why beans give you gas to make up an example, the people would refuse to pay for such nonsense.

We would have mor efficient more fiscally conservative transactions and fewer "rights".

Do you believe that getting Viagra is a right, or that there should be able bodied people collecting welfare payments? These are things that could be rejected at the local level.

The founding fathers tried to protect us from the corruption that big government brings.

Smaller government doesn't automatically mean better but big government can ruin an economy even worse that it is now. This country is for the people by the people that is where the Republican ideal comes in. Let the people have freedom over themselves. It's not just about smaller federal government interference it is about stronger state government....that part is always left out when people speak about republican ideas.

Yes.

A larger federal government means that the main power of government resides at the federal level. Republicans believe that the main power of the government should lie in the individual or the state and local levels where it is closer to the individual. The government at the federal level should be limited. They should concern themselves with protecting the constitutional rights of the citizens, national defense (which includes homeland security), producing currency, international trade and interstate trade and infrastructure, and collecting the funds to pay for necessary expenses.

A good example of this is the bail out for GM. The federal government has no place being involved in such a thing. If such a bail out is wanted, it should be at the state or local level. Let the power to decide reside in the individual citizens. Give the power and responsibility back to the individual states and in turn back to the citizens.

The more programs, laws and regulations that a government makes, the more people needed to implement those programs and police the laws. Then government grows. Historically, the largest governments have always been over the people with the least freedom. A large government is needed to control the people. In the US, we don't need to be controlled at the federal level---and we need very little control at the state level. A large government is unnecessary and expensive. I don't want it and I don't want to pay for it.

Let me keep the money that I earn and be responsible for myself. Let me make my own decisions and be responsible for them.

Smaller government in general is a good thing, but that doesn't mean that you randomly abolish government programs and cut funding wherever you want.

One of the big problems with the Republican party is that they reduce taxes in order to force the government to get smaller, but then the government doesn't get smaller - deficits go up instead.

The government supposed to work for the people.But when you have a lot of people working for the government, the government ends up working for itself.

I reject Sharia based governments no matter what there size. It doesnt matter whether and Islamic government is small or large, its simply the worst form of government conceievable.

Usually, yes.

The free market - people making their own decisions - usually works better than some government bureaucrats deciding something for all of us.

That's one reason the Soviet Union failed.

Take a look at it. And changing bureaucracy is pretty impossible.

Small is better. Small leaves our liberty. Big tries to control it.

like Obama's conscripted community service.

HIS idea of what we should do with our time.

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