THE TORIES VERSUS BIG GOVERNMENT

While the Republicans expand government at a phenomenal rate, the British Tories are daring to ratchet it back a little. It’s still peanuts compared to what we need to do to bring government back to a reasonable size – the proposals would reduce government’s take on national wealth from 42 to 40 percent. (I can’t see why it should ever be more than a third). But at least the Tories haven’t completely lost their smaller government vision.