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Episode 52: Why Does Government Keep Expanding?

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The Growth of Government Over Time

CNN's John Sutter is a political scientist and an economist. He says he doesn't understand why anyone would pay another human being to blow dry their hair. "I don't get it at all," writes Sutter, who has been alive for a while. 'Maybe the civics class version isn't the way to go on this'

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