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Re:Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate L... by Retric on Friday September 27, 2019 @11:17AM (#21092898)
You quickly hit massive bureaucracy at the national scale without actually being that expensive. Let’s say 4,000 people, which seems like massive overkill, costing 250k each (salary + benefits + office space etc). That’s 1 billion a year out of ~7630B total government spending.

It’s still a cost benefit analysis, but a technology equivalent to the GAO or arguably the FDA could provide significant value.

Re:Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate L... by ianai on Friday September 27, 2019 @11:41AM (#21093149)
I find all the talk about bureaucratic waste disingenuous when there are never reductions in the parts of governmental spending that benefit business directly. Ie private prisons and industrial complexes.