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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Government contractors are the largest source of waste and it should be no surprise. Anything purely government-run has been forced to function on shoestring budgets for decades now. Meanwhile the government pays top dollar for anything farmed out to private business because of how the contracting system is set up, largely thanks to unfettered lobbying.

    This is why the military budget is over a trillion dollars now. Even as overextended as the US military is, defense contracts get the lion’s share. The military itself is stuck working with minimums.

    If lobbying and contract bidding rules were fixed we would see crazy opportunities to make budget cuts.