Would smaller government actually cost taxpayers less money? Won't it just be outsourced to consultants?

Question

...and consultants are never cheap.

One doesn't have to try too hard to come up with a fairly cynical take on the way many politicians who advocate for smaller government are tangled up with private corporations whose biggest customer is the federal government. Could it be that politicians are actually advocating for a weird kind of smaller government, one with huge budgets for consultants and contractors?

Answer 1

They want the corporations to rule the world!

Answer 2

There need be no central government at all beyond an affiliation of states for self-defense. All programs should be voluntary and supported by the people who use them. If no one supports the program, it dies. That's the best use of everyone's money and doesn't enforce "charity" down the barrel of a gun, which is why it makes bureaucrats uneasy and will never be implemented.