Outrunning a Bear

politicians are irrational actors trying to pander to irrational voters and that it can't be any other way.

That is exactly why we need to limit the damage they can do by reducing government.

That is exactly why per capita real gdp growth in the US has been about 50% higher since we started having large scale government intervening then it did in the era of small government.

The evidence is overwhelming that despite government inefficiencies that free-market capitalism has performed much better in partnership with government then it did in the absence of large government.

We have numerous examples of countries (economies) shifting from small government to large government
and I can not think of a single example of such a shift leading to a slower growth rate of the economic well being of the population.

The communist countries were not mixed-capitalist economies.

Show me a single example of a mixed economy country shifting from small government to large government that has been accompanied by a significant downward shift in the growth rate of the economic well being of the population.

That is exactly why per capita real gdp growth in the US has been about 50% higher since we started having large scale government intervening then it did in the era of small government.

I'm politely skeptical of that, and the other claims in that post.

Spencer, would you agree that "large scale government intervening" started with the New Deal in 1933, and "the era of small government" was everything before that?

Or would you prefer to put the dividing line at 1965 with the Great Society?

Either way, I believe you're greatly mistaken when you say that GDP/capita grew at a rate 50% higher after the period than before it.