[Brian Griffin]

“The gov’t ‘produces’ nothing.”

It can produce infrastructure and education, transportation and security services.

Government service production is going down in quality and up in price since the consumer feedback mechanisms are defective.

[econjack]

No, it doesn't produce those. It hires companies/institutions to produce those things. It takes money via income taxes to pay for the US road system and a standing military and local property taxes pay for the bulk of public education. Private education requires you to pay directly, public education forces you to buy it whether you use it or not.

The worst outcome of this: There is no reason to be efficient. If I were President, I would issue an Executive Order at a Press conference saying:

Effective immediately, all gov't agencies with the exception the military, have their budgets reduced by ten percent. I expect the administrators of those agencies to provide their goods and services at the same or higher levels than currently exists. Those who cannot do this will be replaced by those who can.

Have a nice day.

While there would be a massive kerfuffle, I think the objective is realistic.