Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

The governor is a very serious scuba diver. I managed not to drown.

A vote in the state legislature to allow a local government to impose a higher tax is not opposing tax increases. This isn't higher-level math.