Agreed. Ideally, government services would be completely self serve (via web apps), and all current government employees would be laid off and put on Negative I

Agreed. Ideally, government services would be completely self serve (via web apps), and all current government employees would be laid off and put on Negative Income Tax benefits. Law would be non-profit, as would healthcare, and there would be severe limits on legal complexity. In a nutshell, the government must be engineered such that form follows function. Currently, it has become a malignant tumor that grows for the sake of growth itself. Until we agree that government must be leanest of all institutions, we will continue to fall into this ever deepening quagmire of bureaucratic impotency.