One of the core problems with American governance is overfunding. The government has FAR too much money, by an order of magnitude. It uses that excess cash to make itself bigger. It is insulated from every force that would compel greater honesty or efficiency.
The government is so flabby that it can barely move. Its nerve endings are deadened from the layers of fat that protect it from all consequences. It can't actually *do* anything useful, and it collapses in a quivering heap at the first touch of genuine crisis, as in the pandemic.
Overfunded government agencies constantly seek new "missions" so they can demand even more funding, while neglecting their core missions. The sums flowing through these agencies are so immense that corruption has become all but undetectable.
If necessity is the mother of invention, then Big Government is the motherless monstrosity: it invents nothing because it never feels the sting of necessity. Its only response to any pain inputs it dimly feels through its layers of fat is to howl for more money.
Worst of all, excess funding for the State is inevitably weaponized against the people. Rest assured that overfunded government will always use its excess cash to spread ideologies favorable to the Ruling Class, nullify accountability, and subdue the public.
We're having huge problems with toxic garbage like Critical Race Theory because the overfunded government has vast amounts of cash on hand to pay stooges to disseminate it. These ideas aren't spread by devoted monks. They're profitable grifts funded by taxpayer loot.
Also, it's no coincidence that as the overfunding of government accelerated over the past half-century, more and more of the State moved beyond the reach of voters. More power is wielded by people you will never get to vote against. Vast piles of taxpayer loot made that possible.
It takes huge amounts of excess money - funding above and beyond anything reasonably needed by dedicated professionals to handle the core duties of a properly limited State - to construct cyclopean bureaucracies. Generations of bureaucrats had to be hired at fabulous expense.
Overfunding also makes anarcho-tyranny possible. Those lefty government apparatchiks cheerfully throwing you to the wolves by refusing to enforce criminal law are not worried about losing their jobs, or their department funding.
Only a morbidly obese State can fuss over punishing citizens for microaggressions against its interests while leaving violent crime unpunished because it suits the ruling ideology. Filthy rich governments can afford to be irresponsible because they don't fear the people.
Overfunded governments have a tendency to descend into fascism because they have the money to dominate and control private industry. As the State grows titanic beyond reason, the private economy naturally fuses into politics until they are completely symbiotic.
Overfunding helps the State create an ecosystem of private ideological organizations that sustain the bureaucracy. You see this ALL THE TIME in modern America: regulatory capture, revolving doors between the State and friendly think-tanks, academia as an arm of the ruling Party.
The ideological organizations killing America are tumors growing from the corpulent State, drinking taxpayer blood to finance political crusades that serve the interests of statism. Choke off the public money supply, and a lot of that junk would vanish with remarkable speed.
Trying to reform this government by giving it even MORE money is lunacy. At this point, you can bet that at least 90 cents of every new dollar you give Washington will be spent on squeezing the next dollar from you, not on "building" anything useful.
Spending money responsibly would actually be against the interests of Fat Uncle Sam. If you give him $5 trillion for "infrastructure" and he builds $5 trillion of useful stuff with it, how will he be able to complain that he needs more money for infrastructure next time?
We're FAR beyond the point where the people have any hope of punishing the State for failing to spend your money wisely. The very notion is laughable. It's ALL overfunding now. They have many times the money they need to perform their Constitutional duties. You can't hurt them.
The bloated State doesn't have to turn a profit, deliver value for money, balance a budget, monitor its "investments" carefully, increase its efficiency, or worry about losing unhappy "customers." Every force that could possibly compel meaningful reform has been neutralized.
Take any company you hate doing business with, and ask how much worse it would be if they could charge anything they want, force you to do business with them, punish you for criticizing them, and never had to worry about going bankrupt. That's the overfunded State in a nutshell.
And as you might have noticed, the middle class suffers the most from government overfunding. The rich find ways to profit from it, the poor get their benefits and a pass from paying taxes. It's YOU, right in the middle, that get squashed when Fat Uncle Sam rolls over in bed.
The money to feed overfunded government invariably comes from the most vibrant and productive sector of the economy, the middle. The negative effects of its foolish regulations are felt most keenly there. Every dollar of overfunding is a weapon against independence. /end
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