45.00% - Government should be exactly as large as the job requires — every additional layer is another opportunity for waste, corruption, and losing sight of the mission.
25.00% - No reason the same territory needs two sets of administrators, two HR departments, two pension systems — consolidate city and county; it's waste, plain and simple.
17.50% - 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.
12.50% - 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.
Multiple overlapping tiers of local government produce wasteful duplication.
55.36% - No reason the same territory needs two sets of administrators, two HR departments, two pension systems — consolidate city and county; it's waste, plain and simple.
23.81% - Government should be exactly as large as the job requires — every additional layer is another opportunity for waste, corruption, and losing sight of the mission.
20.83% - A small state with 50,000 people doesn't need three tiers of local government. One accountable body, clear jurisdiction, no bureaucratic overlap. That's efficient government.
50.00% - Multiple overlapping tiers of local government produce wasteful duplication.
50.00% - When multiple layers of government duplicate the same functions, consolidation is efficient government.
0.00% - Multiple tiers of local government are bad.
50.00% - Local government
