big government

noun

1. derogatory,  a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power

Example Sentences

As Yale historian Beverly Gage explores in “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” her Pulitzer-winning 2023 biography, Hoover embodied two apparently contradictory strains of right-wing ideology: a mistrust of “big government” — or at least of government social programs — as de facto socialism, and an embrace of coercive state power on a grand scale.

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“It’s big government colluding with big banks and big business to spy on everything Americans buy, every place they go, everything they do,” Jordan said.

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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.”

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“Somebody, sometime, has got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news.”

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Weiss is extremely popular among corporate executives disdainful of high taxes and big government.

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