Steeped in business experience and knowledge of the history and data proving the negative affects of excessive government cost as a Percent of GDP. Not only in the U.S. but in individual states, Europe and elsewhere. Not only in this century but in the two prior centuries.
Conversely nations who spend the proper amount on government, no matter how limited their resources become wealthy when those limited resources, especially government costs are allocated wisely. The #1 example is Hong Kong.