It's not just programs for the poor that are Byzantine. Taxes, securities, environmental regulation, and building permits are too. For these, there are entire p

It's not just programs for the poor that are Byzantine. Taxes, securities, environmental regulation, and building permits are too. For these, there are entire professions who specialize in shepherding the paperwork through and the end users can usually afford to pay someone to do it rather than learning how to deal with the bureaucracy themselves. But to help people apply for entitlement programs, it has to be a non-profit.