But people are rarely spending their own money: if you cut government, the same work will be done by some random mega-service-corp, with exactly the same waste.

But people are rarely spending their own money: if you cut government, the same work will be done by some random mega-service-corp, with exactly the same waste. In my experience, waste is a more or less inevitable consequence of large organisations, be they public or private. In both cases, the managers aren't paying out of their own pockets.