You'd think Ed Stringham would know. He's worked in government for 51 years.
But the truth is, no one can make government work.
Biden hasn't.
Look at the chaos at the border, our military's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rising cost of living, our unsustainable record-high debt.
In my new video, economist Ed Stringham argues that no government can ever work well, because "even the best person can't implement change….The massive bureaucracy gets bigger and slower."
I learned that as a consumer reporter watching bureaucrats regulate business. Their rules usually made life worse for consumers.
Just look at Federal income tax forms.
Trump attempted to simplify them, but by the time IRS got through with the simplification, it wasn’t.
Biden’s IRS has taken revenge by making those schedules that go along with the 1040 (Schedules 1-5) crazy worse...
It is about the human conundrum. The best government is no government, but anarchy is worse. The constitutional framers knew that and tried to create a government that would be self governing. But we are lazy, and the envisioned constitutional balance cannot outlast the effects of entropy without the dreaded periodic refresh of the tree of liberty of which we are overdue by probably a century.