No Need for DOGE

by | Dec 10, 2024

No Need for DOGE

by | Dec 10, 2024

We don’t need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It’s a nongovernment thing.) We need a “Department” of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid or minimize waste in achieving it. What is the objective of government? We can’t judge its efficiency if we don’t know its objective.

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the former executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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