The Lower Cost of a Truly Limited Government

A demonstration of just how far the United States has moved from its original founding principles is seen in the fact that in all the jousting over ObamaCare, the general rise in "entitlement" spending and the burden of government regulation over American enterprises, there is one question that seems rarely to be asked: What should be the size and scope of government, and what would it cost if government were cut down more to the size delineated in the original Constitution? 

Whenever, occasionally, this question is asked, the answer seems to be very far from what the Founding Fathers had in mind, if one is in anyway familiar with their conception of limited government and individual liberty. 

Thinking the Clinton Years were "Limited Government" 

For example, in 2012 two books appeared by "conservative," free market-oriented economists who were clearly trying to influence the terms of the political debate during that presidential election year.

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