Yes, you make a very good point. The gubment does not produce anything. It is a cost and very often not a necessary cost to the whole isn’t it? Consider the duplication to the states that is not a coordinating role as an unnecessary cost. Consider national defense that, while mostly very wasteful in their spending habits I think, is a necessary cost to the safety and stability. Consider locks, dams and flood control that mostly accrue to the benefit of commerce and safety as necessary.
Usually companies have days of reconing when they finally rationalize and right size their enterprise to correct expansive creep from less well managed salad days. The feral gubment never does such a thing and just ever expands in laws and size.
In point of fact, I believe, the gubment IS a jobs program in many functions and we do have more serious issues because it is certainly NOT all necessary at all but expansive overhead instead. Tell that to the people who are employed and tell them to find some other job in the economy we have. We simply don’t have enough productive work for all of us.
“We simply don’t have enough productive work for all of us.”
Problem is too much regulation strangles private initiative. Lower taxes, remove ALL un-necessary regulation, sell of most Federal lands to private US citizens only. Pay down the national debt. Stop subsidizing industries that won’t make it on their own.
The market works. Government is never the solution.