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The bureaucrats are the worst parasites. By sheer numbers they suck up so many resources and produce nothing for society.

If people want more efficient government one easy way to start would be to remove income taxes from the bureaucrats.

Make it very clear that they’re not contributing, that they are purely recipients of other people’s money.

Governments make them pay income tax to obfuscate this fact, it allows them to claim they are contributing to society but it’s just roundtripping already stolen money to government for illusory purposes.
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Low Information Voter 1y ago

Ten years ago I would have heartily agreed, but I'm no longer sure the salaried, on-payroll bureaucrats are still the largest part of the problem.

Approved. Pre-approved. Compliant. Permitted. Registration. Authorised. Verified. Standardised.

All code-words for "private monopoly", or at least "private oligopoly".

And then we have the off-payroll bureaucrats: the middlemen, the assessors, the contractors, the industry associations, the lobbyists.

I think the salaried bureaucrats are only one of three. And the onion may have other layers I don't understand yet...

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