40.00% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
35.00% - Bureaucracies never die — they just grow, hire more people, and find new reasons to justify their existence; not one federal agency has ever been truly abolished.
25.00% - From the DMV to the Pentagon, when there's no competition and no accountability, inefficiency and corruption are inevitable outcomes.
Government is structurally slow to respond to specific public concerns by the time they reach citizens.
55.00% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
45.00% - Regulations written in 1972 are still on the books because nobody made time to review them — reviewing outdated rules is the job.
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 is structurally slow to respond to specific public concerns by the time they reach citizens.
50.00% - It is naive to think the government can be responsive to the people’s needs.
50.00% - Beslan school siege