Why on earth do you think the founders had us on "THE GOLD STANDARD" until Nixon took us off. That way the government size would always be limited by how much money they treasury could print, now that they can print literally an unlimited amount of essentially worthless paper money our government can now and has ever since then grown at a uncontrolled exponential rate. Know this 90% of all taxes we now pay have been enacted in the last 40 years.