One, and I cannot believe you are actually requiring me to explain this, entitlements are government. And they have a very large impact on social structure, family formation, etc.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jeffspross
In the 1950s, most healthcare spending was out of pocket or employer insured. Govt's role expanded enormously w/Medicare & Medicaid. It's not vaguely credible to claim there is less govt in health care now than in 1960.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jeffspross
"We’ve cut welfare" um, no. There is no possible way to argue that we spend less on welfare, or have fewer people on public assistance in any significant respect, than we did before the Great Society.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jeffspross
Education has expanded enormously, with extensive government involvement. Compared to the 1950s, kids start school/daycare much earlier, stay much later. Per-pupil spending's way up. Govt spending & regulation on higher education is orders of magnitude higher.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jeffspross
Law enforcement and regulation are more extensive. The Code of Federal Regulations alone has metastasized, as has the United States Code, criminal & civil. The prison population is much larger. Govt surveillance is vastly expanded.
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Govt's role in employment & housing is much larger than it was, with the expansion of anti-discrimination laws. The ADA alone has reached deep into the physical environment of building & transit.
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Environmental regulation was virtually unknown before 1970. The Fed is much more deeply embedded in the banking industry. Financial industry regulation has added forests of rules & forms, tons of compliance jobs & bureaucracy.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jeffspross
Then there's litigation; the court dockets are massively larger today. You can continue to try to die on this hill, but it is simply not a defensible position.
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Yes, the mandatory expansion of government eventually crowds out even voluntary government. You are now a very long way from the claim that government has shrunk since the 1950s, the timeline during which private social institutions have been in retreat.
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