The reason they do not believe that government should grow at the rate of inflation is that, when they get their paycheck at the end of every week, they find that 40 percent of it is going to government at one level or another, and if we are growing it faster than inflation, it means that that number is going to keep going up. They want that number to go down.
Discussing concerns about government growth and its impact on taxpayers.
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