Everything gives room for corruption and incompetence. The problem is the US has some of the most incompetent government on a local level in the developed world. Part of it is American individualism, part of it is the Republican party starving the beast, part of it is the government as a giant jobs program.
There is no reason we cannot have competent civil servants, long term planning, clean cities, etc.
I'm completely serious when I say we should just outsource everything on the county level and lower to the Swiss or Dutch.
There is no reason we cannot have competent civil servants, long term planning, clean cities, etc.
I'm completely serious when I say we should just outsource everything on the county level and lower to the Swiss or Dutch.