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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by s1artibartfast on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:09PM (#43232507)
Reduction of scope is required to decrease cost and waste. Unfortunately, reducing scope and regulation is a legislative problem, not an executive one.

Having an government organization underfunded and understaffed to fulfill its mission leads to more waste, both on the public and private side.

For example, the solution isnt to fire employees, it is to simplify the tax code.

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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by alephnerd on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:12PM (#43232554)
> Unfortunately, reducing scope and regulation is a legislative problem, not an executive one.

Exactly!

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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by nerdponx on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:13PM (#43237931)
> Reduction of scope is required to decrease cost and waste

That doesn't follow at all. Plenty of cost and waste arises while carrying out things that are solidly within the scope of a federal government in the eyes of belief system but anarchism and other forms of extreme heterodoxy. To "provide for the common defense" is literally in the Constitution, yet the DoD is a black hole of funding, while soldiers eat powdered eggs on base.

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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by s1artibartfast on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:41PM (#43245174)
Fair. I agree that scope is not the only source of waste.
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