1 Poor organization
Government is complicated. Managing a tax farm for up to millions of people is not for the faint of heart. People are dynamic. Even the most talented psychologists cannot tell a person’s future actions with certainty. It’s like trying to predict the weather. Keeping them all in line becomes especially difficult when your goal is to extort every last one of them through taxation.
2 Self-imposed special rights
Government is the only organization on the planet that people accept and advocate as having a monopoly on the initiation of aggressive force (starting a fight) in order to make people comply with their wishes (laws). Anyone else who attempts this would be considered a criminal.
3 Costly middle men
Every single government employee gets their paycheck from taxes. That’s a lot of bureaucrats and their assistants, judges, elected officials, janitors, police, entire legal teams set up under the district attorney, the FBI, CIA, DEA, and all the other three letter departments, and the list goes on. And they are all overpaid. Going over budget is standard practice. The cost to build the Healthcare.gov website in 2013 was over $800 million, with a beginning budget of less than half that.
4 Pointless & costly micro-management (laws & regulations)
We can argue semantics all day, but the bottom line is that telling someone what to do I their homes and business is a violation of the Non-Aggression principle. Putting limitations on what you can sell is wrong. Telling a restaurant owner to pay for OSHA licenses, permits to build a deck, criminalization of Cannabis, all examples of extorting people under the guise of preventing issues. If your restaurant causes a lot of food poisoning, people will stop eating there.
- Complexity
Think you’re a good, upstanding, law abiding citizen? Think again. There are so many contradictory laws on the books, it is literally impossible to not break a law every day. You probably committed three felonies on your drive to work! If you end up in court, good luck trying to represent yourself. The language of the law is written in such a way that it has its own name – Legalese. On top of being written in incredibly confusing and complicated format, there are so many laws in so many books, that one person could spend a lifetime reading the law and only explore a small fraction. So now you have to hire a specialist if you have any hope of navigating the legal system. Time to hire a lawyer. This system sure is expensive.