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And what to do about it? Most conservatives want smaller federal government, which reduces the aggregate size and expenditure for government, but exacerbates fragmentation. On the other hand, progressives want larger federal government, which introduces standardizing layers, but spends way more on aggregate government.
> smaller federal government > larger federal government I find both of these positions frustratingly vague, and I'm eager to blame them for making the problem appear intractable. They're perfectly intuitive enough to make people have a gut-feeling for what it means without actually thinking about what it means, and in that sense avoid actually debating that , which would be productive. What does "large" and "small"…
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#211I think we're saying the same thing. Small Federal Government either means larger state governments or a whole bunch of undesirable problems like increased pollution, job discrimination, etc, and those issues are not uniformly distributed because of the states.