2024-08-17
"Government spending and taxation as a share of the economy is so high that the parasite risks killing the host"
"Lately, there has been a new shift. An entirely new theory of government. It’s now fashionable to claim civil servants are our true unelected leaders. They just ignore and undermine the elected ones to get their preferred policies across the line regardless"
"What theory of government explains the truly bizarre and erratic nature of our politics and policies today?"
And no, I'm not buying it. That's not to say that there is no truth in it - but there is plenty of evidence of institutional capture on a global scale - so is it really the size factor alone?
