You know what, this is stupid and this country has lost it's collective minds!
Yes, ma'am, in large part that statement is true, and goes back to Henry Clay and the American System -- the first, wan seed of big-government, corporate-welfarist statism.
I could direct you, if you are interested, to several rather learned threads, some of them running to 4,000 posts, a brief reading of which would serve to educate you to the degree to which the United States has departed from the design of the Framers, under the constant press of business and other interests, and to create an overlarge governmental establishment which has no conception -- or at least no tolerance -- of the ideal of "limited government".
If you were so inclined, ma'am.