What is Big government?
'''Big government''' means a [[government]] system which many people think of as either too large or which tries to do too much. Policies that are usually described as Big Government include laws on [[food]] (such as [[New York City]]'s laws on [[soft drink]] sizes), laws on [[morality]] (like those against [[prostitution]] or [[drug]]s), or policies that seek [[centralization]]. A similar idea is [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Big Brother]] for an intrusive [[surveillance state]]. Similar terms are '''parent government''', '''[[nanny state]]''' (especially in [[British English]]), and [[managerial state]]. ==Related pages== *[[Corporate welfare]] *[[Too big to fail]] *[[Corporate cronyism]] *[[Social engineering]] *[[Authoritarianism]] *[[Totalitarianism]] *[[Lemon socialism]] *[[Night watchman state]] *[[Small government]] *[[Minarchism]] *[[Statism]] *[[Deep state]] [[Category:Forms of government]]