32.00% - 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.
22.00% - From the DMV to the Pentagon, when there's no competition and no accountability, inefficiency and corruption are inevitable outcomes.
15.00% - Trusted government once — watched them lie about Vietnam, Watergate, WMDs in Iraq, COVID lab leak. Never again. Skepticism of government isn't paranoia. It's patriotism.
9.00% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
9.00% - $35 trillion in debt, 180,000 pages of regulation, agencies not reviewed in decades — Washington is too big, and it's time to cut it down.
9.00% - The "free market" is a complex legal-institutional construct requiring rules about everything from who owns what to who and for what you can sue.
4.00% - 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.
Power always seeks more power; this is the rule, not the exception.
40.67% - 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.
27.59% - From the DMV to the Pentagon, when there's no competition and no accountability, inefficiency and corruption are inevitable outcomes.
19.33% - $35 trillion in debt, 180,000 pages of regulation, agencies not reviewed in decades — Washington is too big, and it's time to cut it down.
6.21% - 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.
6.21% - We built a constitutional republic — elected representatives, accountable to voters, bounded by the Constitution; not a pure democracy or a technocracy.
25.00% - Power always seeks more power; this is the rule, not the exception.
25.00% - Power concentrates and self-perpetuates, which is why checks on it must be constant.
25.00% - Power, in whatever form it takes, always seeks more power.
25.00% - Power consistently seeks more power, regardless of the form it takes.
0.00% - Power - in all forms - will never stop seeking greater power for itself.
0.00% - Founders' Vision for Balanced Government