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Great postThere is no right answer to this question. There is no magic "size" of government. Government needs to establish a means of Justice based on rule of law, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the generally welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for the people. What those terms mean is where the debates ensues.
Imo government needs to make people's lives easier and more secure, while having the most minimal impact in how they choose to live their lives that is possible. I think certain things should be viewed as rights, such as availability of affordable housing, electricity, clean water, waste disposal, and medical care. These should be viewed as basic "utilities" and should be provided or subsidized in one form or another through the government, or in other words, by each of us for each of our benefit. Then the government should just stay out of people's business. They have no right to be in people's bedrooms, deciding who can marry, or meddling in any other personal liberties.
Obviously this is very broad, but imo this is the amount the government should be involved in providing for the citizenry, and it needs to be big enough to do this effectively and efficiently and no bigger. So how big is that? Big enough, I guess.
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