Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.
Federal spending is atrocious.
Government is just spending too much money.
A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.
The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.
The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
The federal government is way larger than it should be.