This administration has reduced the number of federal employees dramatically and has ended USAID.
Spending is still up dramatically and there's plenty else to critique, but shrinking the government h...
Shifting payroll from civil servants to private contractors, military apparatus, or intelligence budgets while total spending rises isn't "shrinking government." It’s restructuring the managerial class.
If the state spends more money, wields more power, controls more capital, and inflates the currency faster than before, firing bureaucrats isn't dismantling the leviathan, it's streamlining it. A leaner corporate state with a bigger budget isn't smaller authority; it's just more concentrated leverage.
Pruning a branch while feeding the root isn't shrinking the tree.
If the state spends more money, wields more power, controls more capital, and inflates the currency faster than before, firing bureaucrats isn't dismantling the leviathan, it's streamlining it. A leaner corporate state with a bigger budget isn't smaller authority; it's just more concentrated leverage.
Pruning a branch while feeding the root isn't shrinking the tree.
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