By Daniel J. Mitchell

This article appeared on The Hill (Online) on December 18, 2014.

Can you name the president in the post-World War II era who presided over the largest five-year reduction in the burden of government spending, measured as a share of economic output?

Or how about the president who was in office when nominal federal spending shrank for two consecutive years and had no growth over a five-year period?

Here’s another question: Can you also name the president who signed a 10-year tax cut of nearly $4 …