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You have to measure it as budget compared to GDP or per capita in order to compare us to other countries. As of 2009, tax collections were only 15% of the GDP, which is frighteningly low, in fact it's the lowest in half a century. We can compare that the the rapid inflation of debt, which is of course relevant, but please don't pretend that somehow the government was small under Bush and suddenly massive under Obama. That simply isn't so. It was small-medium under Bush and now it's slightly more medium but still small under Obama.
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