"“Big government is back,” says the New York Times, and the economic cost is high. The excessive regulation and taxation on the US economy reduces the GDP by 2% every year, according to a new study by International Monetary Fund. That’s a massive drag on the economy–some $320 billion per year. Big government has thus become, not just a moral problem with rampant illegality and outlandish compensation of career-bureaucrats and political cronies: Excessive government is a macro-economic problem of the first order."
IMF lead by the government devotes would never say that.
This IMF study is the closest thing to honesty you are going to get out of an organization like this.