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		throw0101c 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Largest Mass Resignation in US History as 100k Fed... > Why does government have to grow proportionally with the size of the population? It does not, and did not: * https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001

timr 71 days ago [–]

I'm responding to the parent's implicit assertion that the government should somehow naturally grow with the size of the population.

Arguing that it historically has not done so only makes my point. Nor is it an argument that government should not be smaller today.

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