Funding a military that is bigger and badder than our adversaries is not anti-Constitutional Big Guv'ment like all the Income Redistribution is...MUD
We had unconstrained capitalism in post civil war USA, sweat shops, child labor, all powerful monopolies and an impoverished working class and small middle class. It did not work. All (most) of the wealth was in the hands of a few Barrons of industry, TR busted the monopolies, labor laws were past and the nation, all of the nation became wealthy. History is hard to argue against.