FA_Q2
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How do you tell the difference?
Is big government like pornography, you can't define it but you know it when you see it?
Or is it more like beauty... in the eye of the beholder? Just like one man's nasty skank is another man's beauty queen, one man's authoritarian overreach is another man's just policy.
How do you decide whether a particular law or policy is big government or good government?
Good government is that government which strives to protect rights of the people.
All other government is essentially big government.
As you stated laws AND the enforcement of those laws is an example of good government protecting the rights of the people from encroachment of others.