72% Think It’s Big Government

12/19/2013 Mises Wire Mark Thornton

This poll says that 72% of Americans now consider big government to be the biggest problem America faces, not big business or big labor. Austrian economists had long said that the battle against big government seems hopeless and then bang, the people wake up and you have an ideological revolution on your hands. HT: RD

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