“One of the reasons Washington is suffocating under the swarm of client groups is that Washington is an irresistible target. You can go there for almost any kind of benefit you want, and it is the only game in town. There are no other federal governments that might undercut you or favor your competitors behind your back. Washington is one-stop shopping for the parasite economy.”
Jonathan Rauch Government’s End
And Rauch is a liberal! He laments that the sclerosis dampens activism that was possible in FDR’s era and now suffocates it at the hands of the various interest groups formed by activism because there is no way to kill off the failures. Unlike with a free market where failed enterprises are cleared away government programs live on and grow to suck away increasing resources. Grover Norquist’s starve the beast campaign of demanding no tax increase pledges makes sense now.
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