Chris Edwards director of tax policy studies at Cato and editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org at CATO authored an excellent Policy Analysis in July 2015 entitled “Why the Federal Government Fails”, and many of the points raised are applicable right here.
Even though our two forms of government are theoretically different, human nature is pretty much the same.
Here are a few points he makes from the Executive Summary:
"First, federal policies rely on top-down planning and coercion…
"Second, the government lacks knowledge about our complex society…
"Third, legislators often act counter to the general public interest….
"Fourth, civil servants act within a bureaucratic system that rewards inertia, not the creation of value…
"Fifth, the federal government has grown enormous in size and scope…
