25.00% - 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.
25.00% - 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.
20.00% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
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.
Government should be no larger or more complex than the populace and its needs require.
33.91% - 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.
33.91% - 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.
32.18% - 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.
50.00% - Government should be no larger or more complex than the populace and its needs require.
50.00% - Government should be sized to the job it actually has, with every unnecessary layer treated as overhead.
0.00% - The size and complexity of government should be no greater the populace and their needs require.
50.00% - United States labor law
