All bureaucratic and personnel issues aside, it wouldn't do enough to address the simple fact that a lot of government services are under-funded right now. As a

All bureaucratic and personnel issues aside, it wouldn't do enough to address the simple fact that a lot of government services are under-funded right now. As a trivial example, a local fire department just enacted "rolling brown-outs", periods of the week during which they will not have any fire personnel available, and any calls to the fire department will have to be handled by a nearby agency instead. Local citizens are still refusing to accept any tax increases or new fees of any kind to keep the fire department 100% open. It's really that bad. Centralizing services can get you some gains in efficiency -- sometimes! -- but I doubt there'd still be enough to go around.