True words but my understanding is that government with all it's complexities and resposibilities will grow with our society. The key is to limit the growth.
The way it is with all the social programs, (that will never go away)government growth can only be controlled by limiting the formation of new entitlements. The purpose of the tax cut was to remove the funding so that new programs would not evolve. This is the only way.
It is impossible to limit its growth without the people being aware of what's going on. The parties continually try to out-do each other in creating new laws and programs. Need I remind you that they are going to hire 45,000 more government employees as mandated by the airport security law? Do you have any idea about the ancillary costs of this is in addition to the direct payroll? It is staggering!.