big government
Britishnoun
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In 2020 American Compass defended organized labor as a means for combating big government, writing: “We prefer the private ordering of bargains between workers and management to overbearing dictates from Washington.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
"Whether you believe in small government or big government, government has to provide for somebody, somehow."
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
“At the same level that people are concerned about big government, there’s a concern about the private sector becoming too big,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024
“He was seen as a big government liberal who was a fighter for the working man. That is who he has been seen as,” Mr. Burns said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
We rode there and back in the big government wagons, each wagon being drawn by a team of six mules.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell
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