27.50% - Power is self-perpetuating — it always seeks more, and the Constitution's checks exist because the Founders understood this.
13.75% - Government should be well-resourced.
11.25% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
11.25% - 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.
11.25% - The tax code is 75,000 pages by design — complexity protects the bureaucrats; a regulation should be simple enough for a normal person to understand.
10.00% - 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.
8.75% - 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.
6.25% - 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.
Bureaucracies, without competition or accountability, breed inefficiency and corruption.
30.39% - Power is self-perpetuating — it always seeks more, and the Constitution's checks exist because the Founders understood this.
13.28% - Government should be well-resourced.
12.65% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
9.94% - 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.
9.09% - Every bloated government program started with a good idea — then bureaucrats created fiefdoms and the original mission was forgotten.
8.87% - The tax code is 75,000 pages by design — complexity protects the bureaucrats; a regulation should be simple enough for a normal person to understand.
5.68% - Government responds to the last crisis, not yours — two years after filing an OSHA comment, they'd 'consider' my concerns; we'd already fixed the problem ourselves.
5.68% - 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.
4.41% - Government should work for the people who live under it, not the bureaucrats who administer it — that requires fewer agencies, clearer rules, and real accountability for failure.
25.00% - Bureaucracies, without competition or accountability, breed inefficiency and corruption.
25.00% - Bureaucracy produces corruption wherever accountability is absent.
25.00% - Bureaucracy breeds corruption wherever accountability is absent.
0.00% - Bureaucracy breeds corruption.