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People say this as a gotcha but it's really not, "small government" has always just been a euphemism for austerity and anti-welfare politics. It's like "family values" or "states rights", you're not really going to get anywhere useful by taking these euphemisms at face value.

Small federal government. I'm not a huge fan over over zealous state governments, but I have significant more representation at the state level.

I have less representation at the federal level than the 13 colonies had with Parliament with their "virtual representation".

If you're going to ask rhetorical questions, you better make sure your position is 100% bulletproof.