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% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
12.50% - County government, township government, water district, school board — every layer takes a cut of your taxes, and too many bureaucracies are chasing the same dollar. Consolidate the overlap.
Smaller states may not need separate tiers of local government at all.
100.00% - 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.
50.00% - Smaller states may not need separate tiers of local government at all.
50.00% - Small jurisdictions with overlapping tiers of government serve the bureaucracy more than the residents.
0.00% - Smaller states may need no local government at all.
50.00% - Doesn't Really Matter
