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Is "Big Government" Really the Problem?
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September 28, 2020
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5:50Now PlayingConservatives like to complain about "Big Government," but despite lower government spending than many peer nations, America is less prosperous and less free. Briahna Joy Gray explains how the government isn't bad because it's big: it's bad because it's bought.
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In addition to federal budget data on the size of government and GDP, the following sources were helpful in the making of this video:
The GilensPage study is controversialthe core contention of critics is that by ignoring issues on which the rich and the "middle class" disagree, the "middle class" wins about half the time. For a summary of rebuttals, see Dylan Mathews, "Remember that study saying America is an oligarchy? 3 rebuttals say it's wrong" from Vox, May 2016
For a response from Gilens and Page, see Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page, "Critics argued with our analysis of U.S. political inequality. Here are 5 ways they’re wrong," from the Washington Post, May 2016Note than neither Gilens and Page nor their critics argue that poor people have any voice in U.S. politics.
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