“But... that means the government would have to contract & spend less of our money.”
Or...it means the gov’t would have to allow freedom to reign so as to create the envornment for a robust economy, resulting in ever more tax revenues from that.
I know, it’s more fun for politicans to make serfs out of the people, take away their rights, and confiscate whatever wealth they can muster.
When they have control making more money is easy.