The Democratic Party wants us to believe that it’s in our best interest for government to sort out our infrastructure, child care, education, etc.
Considering the ambitious scale by which Democrats want to expand government, it would seem sensible to consider whether the federal government is actually competent. How about we look at the government’s response to a pandemic, for example?
It’s not an example that should give us confidence. The litany of Centers for Disease Control errors should be well known by now.
The CDC insisted that we should use only its own tests through its own labs. Except that those labs weren’t large enough to carry the weight of the testing that was necessary. Even worse, the CDC managed to contaminate their own test equipment. The CDC and the FDA tried to make home testing illegal. They then spent weeks arguing about royalties they should be collecting, in the middle of, just to remind, a pandemic.
The lesson should be clear: how about a reasonable compromise for government?
The federal government deserves no more tasks, no bigger budgets, nor grand plans. At least, that is, until it proves itself at least modestly competent at the tasks it already attempts to handle. It’s not just that we’ll get less bad government by not allowing them to screw up yet another area of life, they might even gain competence. In turn, we might just one day gain some good governance.
And by examining whether government uses our money sensibly or not, we’ll be able to answer the question of why we send them so much of it.
