There are two problem here, you are conflating them: 1. Government spend on stupid shit like welfare and all the stuff in Paul's Festivus report, 2. Governmen

There are two problem here, you are conflating them: 1. Government spend on stupid shit like welfare and all the stuff in Paul's Festivus report, 2. Government spend inefficiently paying lot of buraucrats between when dollars are taken in and when they leave goernment.