I keep hearing the Argument that expanding any Government agency hurts the economy and wastes tax dollars... And I am either not getting it, or surrounded by other who don't.

I am honestly not sure which.

We had multiple cases of dangerous and even deadly products slipping past our inspections officers because the agencies involved have less than a tenth of the manpower they need to actually do their job. This killed tax payers, caused consumer unrest, hurt international relations and saw many unnecessary hospitalizations.

We have an FDA that isn't inspecting everything that gets sold as medicine, because they don't have the manpower. This example of small Government has had the same results; death, economic distress, consumer unrest, and harmed relations with nations who would be a part of our markets.

We have border patrol shortage, and those who cut the budget each year, are the ones who cry out the loudest that something must be done to secure our borders.

Personally, when I was a young man and unemployed, I wasn't paying any taxes. Because I was a young man, with no job, and thus, had no real taxes to pay. Now, if I had been offered a job, say, with the FDA; I would have paid out taxes, been able to support my family, contributed to my local and national economy while helping to insure the safety of millions of Americans.

That is bad because???

I am very ok with the Government spending money on job creation which is in turn used to protect American citizens in all the ways a population this size desperately needs protection. Increases to those programs does not hurt the economy, it finds balance with it or, more often than not, improves it.

Now, if you told me the Government was going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on commercials to convince people to stop having sex for safety’s sake... I would have to agree with THAT being a pretty good example of Government waste and excess.

Still, if the trickle down effect worked, then the rich would not be getting richer while the poor got poorer. Because of all the trickling down you see. But the rich are getting richer, and as they do the resources at our disposal move upwards leaving more and more Americans with less to get by on every year. Almost every year for the last 3 decades. Unless the ultimate goal is to have a handful of survivors while the rest starve out and die, we will eventually have to reverse that trend. Taxing the super rich and utilizing that money to increase the health and safety of the general masses strikes me as pretty good way to start. Remember, the Government isn’t hiring robots from a distant star to perform these tasks, they are hiring our friends and neighbors.