If I had to guess, the kickback isn’t from the auth provider. Maintaining a system takes people & resources. For 40+ years, there’s a push to not allow the gov

If I had to guess, the kickback isn’t from the auth provider. Maintaining a system takes people & resources. For 40+ years, there’s a push to not allow the government to actually hire and manage those itself, but use commercial entities, because “big government is bad”. So it is easier to get the approval to pay x2 as much for a 3rd party than do it for half the budget internally. And as things need to be done, you end up saying f*k it and help ruin public service because it was mandated you’ll do so. And then you end up with shitty services, which was the intent all along: it’s not about big government, it’s about outsourcing government contracts to you and yours.