40.00% - From the DMV to the Pentagon, when there's no competition and no accountability, inefficiency and corruption are inevitable outcomes.
35.00% - 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.
25.00% - Government is run by humans. Humans are fallible, corruptible, and self-interested. Build the system with that assumption, not with the pretense that bureaucrats are noble.
Even well-intentioned government programs are corrupted by bureaucratic drift over time.
55.00% - Unless you are willing to act unilaterally you should not expect others to act collectively.
45.00% - A citizen should always have the best interest of his fellow person at heart.
20.00% - Fifty years of Great Society programs haven't fixed poverty — doing the same thing and expecting a different result isn't persistence, it's ideology.
17.50% - 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.
17.50% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
17.50% - One agency says safe, the next says dangerous; one administration rolls back rules, the next reinstates them — industry can't plan or invest. That's your government.
15.00% - Government is run by humans. Humans are fallible, corruptible, and self-interested. Build the system with that assumption, not with the pretense that bureaucrats are noble.
12.50% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
50.00% - Even well-intentioned government programs are corrupted by bureaucratic drift over time.
50.00% - Even the best intentions of government are thwarted by inevitable bureaucratic and parliamentary nonsense.
50.00% - Project 2025