Republicans and Big Government Spending

Republicans have the false perception of spending little and being for the "free market", which is absolutely false. The Republicans -- like the Democrats -- are for big government.

http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=539

http://www.mises.org/article.aspx?Id=1476

http://www.mises.org/article.aspx?Id=895&FS=Republicans+and+Big+Government

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[natedogclassof09]

i belive in small goverment but that video was bull shit

[AntonBatey]

Oh yeah? Give me an example please.

[jeffmagic32]

Republicans spend too much. Democrats spend way way too much,

[Mrhuh]

What's nonsense about it? It matches historical reality. Hell most of the recent Republican candidates with the exception of Ron Paul were themselves just Hillary Clinton with a penis.

[101Politricks]

Republicans, Liberals and especially a party that calls themselves TAXED ENOUGH already is not the solution to anything.

[FRSFreeState]

The truth is Far Right not Conservative Libertarian Republicans not do believe in a form of "Big Government". Not the Socialist Democratic form of "Big Government" like Socialist Democrats. But a Right Wing form of "Big Government" where Social Freedom is limited.

All you to do to believe that is to look at the positions that Far Right Conservatives have taken on Gay Marriage, DODT and Marijuana Legalization. Plus their Hypocrites when they talk about Federal Spending.

[TheJoelef]

vote libertarian

[hankhaines]

Who cares!!!! The only thing that matters now, is that both parties spend like drunken sailors and the federal government has encroached on all aspects of our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. The constitution is a document of limitations for a reason, given the choice between liberty and power, government's leaders throughout history will ALWAYS choose power. We are blessed now though, because of our constitution, we the people, have the ability to reverse the power grab.

[PavedStones]

Small government rhetoric coming from the Republicans makes no sense, either politically, culturally or even economically, and appears to be primarily a ploy to get support for tax cuts for the rich and deregulation of corporations from gay-haters, anti-feminists, religious fundies, etc.

[PavedStones]

(e.g. "the government [God] is up to fight a war on the Axis of Evil [Satan]", paraphrasing of GWB, and "God told me [the government] to invade Iraq"), and Republicans tend to get personally offended when people criticize government foreign policy -> they fully identify with the government, a political philosophy called totalitarianism; and on and on. That's not "small government", okay?

[PavedStones]

i.e. the concept that government has a right of life and death over it's subjects - the highest expression of government power -, the most extreme quarters of it want to merge church and government and advocate government implementation of religious laws; Republican rhetoric often reeks of a belief in the mystical interconnectedness of God and the State

[PavedStones]

Republicans also tend to favor: lawless government wars, 700+ government military bases in other people's countries, government torture, building government walls along the borders even on people's property, government persecution of LGBT and government regulation of personal behaviour generally, "tough on crime" i.e. they think it's formidable if 1% of the population in government cages and preferably with government chains at their feet, government death penalty

[luveraaab]

BiG prisons, LARGE police and sherrif departments, HUGH military, a MOUNTAIN of intelligene agencies = big government.

[Surhotchaperchlorome]

Federalism actually used to mean decentralized government: /watch?v=MHuTs3rSiO0

Also, Obama's spending makes the others minuscule.

And yes, it's a false dichotomy.