I have said it here before. Allow me to say it again: As long as the pols and the bureaucrats are insulated from the market by their use of the violence of taxation, there can be no change. What most people do not understand is that whatever goes on, it is never about anything else.

I had a political philosophy/American government professor there on the West bank of the Charles who used to say, “The first rule of bureaucracy is to take care of the bureaucracy.” I’d like to see a charting of the pay and benefits of Federal employees over the same period with the military separated from the civil and senior executive service.