This is true for an ideal and perfect bureaucracy. But in practice, some government employees will use bigger budgets to arrogate more power to themselves - big

This is true for an ideal and perfect bureaucracy. But in practice, some government employees will use bigger budgets to arrogate more power to themselves - bigger projects, more headcount. Now we do need a degree of bureaucracy, but it’s best to have most of the money circulate in the market where there is pressure to employ it efficiently or lose it.