40.00% - Government can't be fired for wasting money and has no incentive to innovate — that's why every government project runs over budget and underperforms.
35.00% - Every bloated government program started with a good idea — then bureaucrats created fiefdoms and the original mission was forgotten.
25.00% - Government is run by humans. Humans are fallible, corruptible, and self-interested. Build the system with that assumption, not with the pretense that bureaucrats are noble.
Government produces contradictory and unstable guidance that makes long-term planning impossible.
55.00% - Regulations written in 1972 are still on the books because nobody made time to review them — reviewing outdated rules is the job.
45.00% - The harm of public policy doing too much to address a problem is usually much less than the harm persisting after too little.
100.00% - The system rewards dysfunction — spend your whole budget or lose it next year, write ten rules for every edge case, hire more staff to justify the department. America can do better.
50.00% - Government produces contradictory and unstable guidance that makes long-term planning impossible.
50.00% - The government can’t make up its mind about anything.
50.00% - 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis