I would be willing to put a few dollars on Texas getting a full time legislature before California goes part time.
As to the rest, I haven’t seen that recessions have meant a cut in govt spending, quite the contrary. Realize though that I have only been cognizant of such things since Reagan.
The only practical way to go back to a small/limited form of govt is to radically reduce the population. The more rats you have in the maze the more rules you have to govern their interactions. I’d be all for introducing laws to curb population growth effectively. I would say that most conservatives, those who profess a taste for small govt, would not.
