I don't see anything simple. What do you see?
I see gov’s only power is to tell ppl what to do (reduce freedoms). The US used to (like when it was formed) have the idea of negative rights & everything not forbidden was allowed.
Since then the size of gov has been inc & thus freedoms have been reduced. Seems like the number of regulations/rules/laws has also been increasing, though this is hard to quantify.
Gov size (as a measure of the % GDP) and thus relative influence has been increasing steadily.
