> Anyway, the US federal bureaucracy is enormous. It employs massive amounts of people At < 3 million people this is substantially under its peak and at about

> Anyway, the US federal bureaucracy is enormous. It employs massive amounts of people At < 3 million people this is substantially under its peak and at about its level in the 1960's, and a smaller fraction of the workforce than pretty much everywhere. Wages are 0.9 per cent of the federal budget.