Trump’s new cost-cutting department D.O.G.E (“Department of Government Efficiency”), spearheaded by Elon Musk, has really put the cat among the pigeons with its exposure of a number of taxpayer-funded programmes of rather questionable public utility.
I happen to live in California and our spending is opaque and our of control. We have a similar problem to the federal government in that we citizens have no say over how our money is being spent.
Exactly!
I happen to live in California and our spending is opaque and our of control. We have a similar problem to the federal government in that we citizens have no say over how our money is being spent.
Yes, the reform must go all the way down to be effective. Highly centralised governance does not work, whether at the national or state level.