I find this very concerning in an American city. In The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando Desoto;

I find this very concerning in an American city. In The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando Desoto; He makes mention of the bureaucracy overhead in countries that fail at capitalism. Sounds like America needs some house cleaning in places. My sad observation however is that normal people try to fix things by adding on. It takes quite a bit of smarts to remove things from a system and make it work better. The only case I have heard of is New Zealand re-wrote their tax code to 12 (?) pages or something like that 30 years ago. I wonder how big it is now?