Twitter cuts (#41)¶
Why does government spending grow faster than GDP? Shouldn't increasing tech and GDP actually make government cheaper?
— Warg Franklin (@wargfranklin) January 4, 2016
@wargfranklin it's almost like the prices a protection racket charges have nothing to do with the cost of providing 'protection'
— The Duck (@jokeocracy) January 4, 2016
@jokeocracy A bunch of warlords extracting protection money from us and spending it on bling would be an improvement.
— Warg Franklin (@wargfranklin) January 4, 2016
The disastrous incentive-effects would certainly be moderated. (That’s why military-industrial pork waste is actually the least harmful element of government spending — at least, for everything except defense capability and industrial competence.)