A former public servant argues that civil servants cost households $28,000 per year, and cutting the workforce in half could save $14,000 annually. He says applying business efficiency standards and firing underperformers could cut costs by two-thirds, though he acknowledges some regulations like environmental protections are necessary.
Now, let's talk about government red tape. Governments are incredibly inefficient in the way they spend money. I've worked in the public service. I know that. I know how slack it was, how little work there was to do. Even I was trying to work hard, I just couldn't. And even tried to reduce the work that I had. Not only that, but so much of what governments do is completely destructive and negative. It destroys wealth. It burdens business with unnecessary regulations. Yes, we want clean air, clean water. We want the basic stuff done properly. So many of these minute regulations just cripple the economy, force up anybody's costs. We are spending something like $28,000 per year on civil servants. If we knock that back, if we cut that back by half, that is $14,000 per household per year. And that's a very conserved subject. If we had an efficient public service where people could be fired, where you had proper systems of business efficiency and did the things need to, we could probably reduce it by two thirds. But even on a half, $14,000 per household per year.
Rising mental illness and falling birth rates have the same cause, it is this.....
