21.43% - Bureaucracies never die — they just grow, hire more people, and find new reasons to justify their existence; not one federal agency has ever been truly abolished.
20.71% - Regulations that cost $10 million in compliance to mitigate $100,000 in risk happen constantly — Washington imposes the burden without ever running a cost-benefit analysis.
19.29% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
12.86% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
10.00% - Government can't be fired for wasting money and has no incentive to innovate — that's why every government project runs over budget and underperforms.
7.86% - Good governance means limited governance — small, transparent, and accountable, doing only what the Constitution authorizes: defense, courts, basic infrastructure.
7.86% - $35 trillion in debt, 180,000 pages of regulation, agencies not reviewed in decades — Washington is too big, and it's time to cut it down.
Continuous review and pruning of unnecessary regulation is essential to efficient government.
55.00% - The "free market" is a complex legal-institutional construct requiring rules about everything from who owns what to who and for what you can sue.
45.00% - Power is self-perpetuating — it always seeks more, and the Constitution's checks exist because the Founders understood this.
28.57% - Bureaucracies never die — they just grow, hire more people, and find new reasons to justify their existence; not one federal agency has ever been truly abolished.
18.18% - Regulations that cost $10 million in compliance to mitigate $100,000 in risk happen constantly — Washington imposes the burden without ever running a cost-benefit analysis.
14.29% - $35 trillion in debt, 180,000 pages of regulation, agencies not reviewed in decades — Washington is too big, and it's time to cut it down.
12.86% - Government out of our business, out of the economy, out of personal decisions — when Republicans forget that's their mission, they lose, and deserve to.
6.43% - Government should be well-resourced.
3.94% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
3.94% - The tax code is 75,000 pages by design — complexity protects the bureaucrats; a regulation should be simple enough for a normal person to understand.
3.94% - Regulations written in 1972 are still on the books because nobody made time to review them — reviewing outdated rules is the job.
25.00% - Continuous review and pruning of unnecessary regulation is essential to efficient government.
25.00% - Continual review and pruning of unnecessary regulation is required for efficient government.
25.00% - Ongoing review and pruning of unnecessary regulation is essential to efficient government.
0.00% - Constant vigilance is needed to eliminate unnecessary and inefficient regulations.
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