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What Went Wrong with California, New York, and New Jersey?

The primary purpose of any bureaucratic organization is to GROW, and that's exactly what government bureaucracies have been doing. They don't produce anything marketable.

To justify their existence and their gold-plated salaries, pensions and other benefits, bureaucrats produce rules and regulations to make us 'safer' or more 'tolerant' or more 'equal'. Bureaucrats foist their increasingly piss-ant rules, and the fees they charge for compliance with their rules, on people who are trying to run businesses that actually produce something of value to the economy. Businesspeople are treated like evil Nazis out to endanger, rape and pillage the nation, while the virtuous bureaucrats are there to save us from the rapacious business people.

The bigger you allow bureaucracies to grow, the more they will strangle your productive business sector with their regulationizing. And don't point to the Wall St bankster oligopolists and say "we need regulation". We already have antitrust laws against monopolistic predation on our economy, but the laws aren't enforced because the banksters own Washington.

I'm talking about free enterprise businesses who compete in an open market and who are not 'too big to fail' or otherwise protected from their mistakes. Free market business people have perfectly good economic reasons for trying to operate as safely, equitably and efficiently as possible, without an army of bureaucratic piss-ants second guessing their every move.

You want innovation? Get rid of bureaucrats and their 'standardized' formulas they try to make everyone obey. Then watch individual innovation at work. Abolish public sector unions and fire all the non-essential government workers and state and local deficits will disappear while innovative businesses bloom.