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Article: Downsizing the Federal Government
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- Freeman
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- May 1, 2007
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Downsizing the Federal Government fey Chris Edwards Cato Institute * 2005 * 250 pages * $20.00 hardcover; $12.00 paperback
Reviewed by J. H. Huebert
Leonard Read once said that if there were a button that would instantly eliminate all government intervention, he would push it. But since no such button exists, and the federal government is so overwhelmingly large, one who really wants to go about reducing government might reasonably ask: where to begin? A book by Cato Institute scholar Chris Edwards, Downsizing the Federal Government, offers some ideas on that question.
Downsizing the Federal Government details the many ways in which the federal government takes our money and spends it on ...