I know big company/government types often (incorrectly) conflate "size of budget" with "amount of work being done." But this disincentivizes productivity and i

I know big company/government types often (incorrectly) conflate "size of budget" with "amount of work being done." But this disincentivizes productivity and is a sign of a broken system of endlessly expanding do-nothing bureaucracy. The budget for [insert government agency] should never being growing steadily with population growth + inflation, assuming similar scope of work. This would mean government is wholly incapable of productivity, which would be a terrible outcome for the citizens who fund it. What evidence do you have that the amount of tax evasion on a per capita basis is more prevalent today than it was in the past? All numbers I've seen for Americans is that tax evasion has been reduced dramatically. Americans can't even hold money abroad anymore without it being automatically reported by every single bank in the world due to FATCA.