“On the path to beginning Medicare, I can affirm that nothing the fedgov touches can remain simple.
The lawyers who write these laws get paid by the word.”
Most politicians particularly democrats are lawyers. Liberals like it that way, which is why any politician with a business background is condemned and attacked for it.
The last thing they want is someone in Washington who actually knows how to produce something rather than regulate, litigate, and tax everyone into the ground.
As a smart guy on CNBC mentioned several years ago:
China has central planning by scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and the US has central planning by lawyers.
Neither is good, but by definition we lose this game.