33.33% - From the DMV to the Pentagon, when there's no competition and no accountability, inefficiency and corruption are inevitable outcomes.
18.33% - 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.
15.00% - Government should be well-resourced.
13.33% - The federal regulatory code is 180,000 pages, half of it probably contradicting the other half — Congress should repeal two regulations for every new one it adds.
11.67% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
8.33% - Every bloated government program started with a good idea — then bureaucrats created fiefdoms and the original mission was forgotten.
Regulations should be drafted to be efficiently enforceable.
66.67% - 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.
7.48% - Government should be well-resourced.
7.48% - Regulations written in 1972 are still on the books because nobody made time to review them — reviewing outdated rules is the job.
6.12% - If a policy actually works, fund it — regardless of which pot the money comes from. Stop the shell game of moving money around to look busy. What matters is results.
6.12% - Power is self-perpetuating — it always seeks more, and the Constitution's checks exist because the Founders understood this.
6.12% - From the DMV to the Pentagon, when there's no competition and no accountability, inefficiency and corruption are inevitable outcomes.
33.33% - Regulations should be drafted to be efficiently enforceable.
33.33% - A few well-enforced regulations achieve more than many poorly enforced ones.
0.00% - Regulations should be designed to be efficiently enforced.
50.00% - Factory and Workshop Act 1878