Governmental Contempt for Taxpayers

This is an extract from a comment made by a US student in the Wall Street Journal:

Elon Musk and his team are crucial for fixing government by bringing a fresh, results-driven perspective to a system that has long been inefficient and wasteful. For decades, the government has mismanaged taxpayer dollars, funding bloated bureaucracies with little accountability. Many in my generation feel disillusioned by this dysfunction, and Mr. Musk’s approach provides a much-needed reset. Much like his overhaul of Twitter—where he streamlined operations by eliminating redundancies and reworking the platform—Mr. Musk is restoring efficiency to the federal government.

The emphasis is mine.

This same disease is running virulent in Australia. Not a day goes by without a tale of taxpayer rip off. The latest today:

NSW Police charge seven over fraudulent sexual abuse compensation claims

Seven people have been charged following a police investigation into fraudulent compensation claims for historical sexual abuse, in a scheme that paid out more than $1 billion.

Almost every day there is a tale of NDIS fraud. These ones usually crowd out the Medicare and Childcare rebate frauds.

There aren’t enough journalists, there is not enough ink or television time to tell of the tales of waste, fraud, and inefficiency across Australian governments - which spent $250 billion of taxpayers hard earned dollars in the December quarter alone. And this is only the general government sector and does not include off budget waste such as NBN, and the tens of billions to finance the Albanese government’s rent seeker lottery.

Our politicians and senior bureaucrats have nothing but contempt for Australian taxpayers. Because if they respected us, there would be a bipartisan commission established tomorrow to fix the NDIS and to massively reduce the size of the government.

The number 1 performance indicator for an incoming Commonwealth government should be the decline in property prices in Canberra … reflecting the necessary exodus of people.

The guiding fiscal principal for our political class should be that proposed by Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 who said:

I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

There is a shrinking window for Australians to take back control from these kakistocrats. Otherwise … it will really be Venezstralia.