“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

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A wise and frugal government? Where has such a thing ever existed?

Possibly ours, during very brief periods a long long time ago. Consistently? Never.