Mark Steyn is someone I respect and his post on NRO today is pretty good but one of his initial premises is wrong.
He states: "Even in America, federal spending (in inflation-adjusted 2007 dollars) has gone from $600 billion in 1965 to $3 trillion today. The Heritage Foundation put it in a convenient graph: It's pretty much a straight line across four decades, up, up, up. Doesn't make any difference who controls Congress, who's in the White House. The government just grows and grows, remorselessly."
I need to know, does these numbers reflect the amazing growth in population between 1965 and now? If no, then Steyn's argument about government has a serious flaw. If yes, then oh-my-goodness we are in trouble.
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