Government has been been growing by leaps and bounds in the past couple of years, and it just continues a pattern that dates back almost 80 years. What were the big triggers for the onslaught of federal spending and regulation leading up to the efforts we are seeing today? How did big government advocates get the upper hand after Republicans and Democrats successfully ran as small-government supporters in the 1980s and 1990s? And can conservatives really change the big government agenda that’s been implemented to this point? We ask William Voegeli, author of “Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State”.
