Maggie's Farm

“IF THERE IS A SINGLE STUMBLING BLOCK ON THE ROAD TO THE FUTURE, IT IS THE BUREAUCRACY AS WE KNOW IT. “By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory and no mind. They are self-serving, amoral and live forever”. (credit to Edward Hall)
You need only to look at Olson's paradox; the rentiers and special interests continually pile on the government and they do so in tandem with bureaucrats (supported by media, academia, and pols) and who also seek to expand their turf and power. It is the nature of the beast. There is also, of course, always the underlying problem of racketeering.
“Bureaucracy on the life-destroying scale described by Edward T. Hall is an industrial era phenomenon. Only a bureaucracy can turn ordinary, decent people into participants in gigantic atrocities that go on and on, and absolve the people who operate the government machine from personal responsibility for the consequences.” (Noonan)
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Einstein.
Government doesn’t attract this kind of talent.

One thing I do notice about statists is that they are incapable of grasping the concept of diminishing returns, anecdotal, I know.
An old joke: “A USDA worker walks in the office and finds a co-worker crying at his deck. He asks what is wrong, why are you crying? The fellow answers " my farmer died." The joke is that there as many USDA workers as there are farmers and that he is afraid he will be fired.”
The real joke is that Ag works on behalf of the family farm, rather than BIG Agriculture and BIG Chemical.