Tell us what you plan to unload.

Your response is pretty glib but that’s fine.

As I said, the problem with the administrative state is the concentration of political power in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.

So… maybe #7, to the extent the central bankers usurp power from elected officials.

Hey, how bout listing some functionaries that are actually part of the unelected bureaucratic power-elite… like the EPA?

You think civilization will collapse if we take back legislative/executive/judicial power from the unelected snail darter fan club?

Tell us what you plan to unload.

1. Police officers
2. Prosecutors
3. Highway engineers
4. Soldiers
5. Accountants
6. Physicians and surgeons employed at military and veterans hospitals
7. Economists employed at the central bank.
8. State university faculty.

LOL :>))!!

The administrative state was an undemocratic enterprise from it’s inception, an attempt to substitute the judgement and discretion of scientific experts for that of the ignorant electorate; to give the people, not what they stupidly *think* they need but what the credentialed reformer *knows* they need. Hamiltonian means to achieve Jeffersonian ends.

Big business is a creature of the administrative state, created in response to the administrator’s desire to affix a strong leash to a single neck, not to that of millions of small sole proprietors.

England is very much alive. About 50 million of the world’s affluent people live there. The aristocracy’s still around too, just rather cash poor.

The President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of the Treasury go to the National Cathedral to pray. The President prays, “Oh, Lord, will there ever be an end to war and violence in this world?”

A Heavenly Voice answers, “Yes, my son, it will happen, but not in your lifetime.”

Next, the Vice-President prays, “Oh, Lord, will there ever be an end to hunger and poverty in this world?”

A Heavenly Voice answers, “Yes, my son, it will happen, but not in your lifetime.”

Then the Secretary of the Treasury prays: “Oh, Lord, will there ever be real tax reform in this world?”

A Heavenly Voice answers, “Yes, my son, it will happen, but not in My lifetime.”

So what? The military is an inherently public function and one inherently located in the central government. As we speak, about 1% of the working population is in uniform and the ratio of military spending to domestic product is now as low as it has been since 1940. It’s the one form of federal spending wherein propensity to spend is actually responsive to external circumstances.

You want to rename it ‘Department of the Armed Services’ that’s a fine idea. Remind people that our military goes on the offense.

You have an objection to federal programs, you’ve got lots to choose from. The entire grants-and-subsidies patronage mill – for business concerns, for philanthropies; for higher education, public and private; and for state and local governments – is one set. Welfare programs of dubious validity (e.g. SNAP, miscellaneous nutrition programs, utility subsidies, public housing, section 8, TANF, the Administration on Aging, &c) are another. A simple revenue sharing program for state and territorial government and an amended EITC could replace these. While we’re at it, we might get out of the venture capital and credit provision business. (That’s the Farm Credit System, the Energy department lending portfolio, the mortgage maws, the ExIm Bank, certain veterans’ programs &c). We might start to sell off our large inventory of grazing land and timberland, as well as the Postal Service.

The BIGGEST bureaucracy is … the Dept of War, renamed “Defense” to be less honest and more PC.
The Defense Department fought withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Syria because the anti-ISIS campaign helps feed the Beltway—the defense industry and the various other agencies, contractors, and nongovernmental organizations whose missions are shaped by an open-ended campaign abroad to fight Sunni Arab irregulars—that is, ISIS and anyone Iran and its proxies designate as ISIS.

The war profiteers actually DO, in fact, want Endless War. And there are LOTS of Reps, along with Dems, who profit handsomely from the military-industrial complex.

Since Lee agrees with my earlier guesses, he must be a genius!