the idea that government should be smaller means it become weaker and that is a stupid idea by conservatives and libertarians. The whole purpose of government is to have power and control over the population. Making it smaller means less employees to enforce laws which can only lead to less power. The more employees it has the more it's will can be felt all the way across society. Nothing should fall outside the governments authority because everything has to be controlled. It's why we have governments in the first place.
Limited government was actually the "stupid" idea of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and those other dummies they hung out with. To them government was to insure -- the rights of the individual - life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and not to control the population. I think that was Josef Stalin's idea of government