The nature of bureaucracy is that it grows inefficiencies, which in turn grow more bureaucracy. The bureaucrats are incapable of affecting this situation because it is above their pay grade, only elected officials can change the way government operates. When the elected officials ask bureaucrats to come up with cost saving recommendations they only produce recommendations that negatively affect the taxpayers but don't actually provide any cost savings. An example would be that a person can take 1 level pickup load of trash per day to the transfer station maximum. If the household has 1.5 loads of trash they must make 2 trips, even though the county will be handling the same amount of rubbish regardless. In fact the added wear and tear on country roads from the added trips depletes the infrastructure faster and actually costs the county (and therefore the taxpayers) more.
The only way to cut costs is to cut unnecessary services/requirements. For example, why don't they get rid of the entire vehicle inspection program? The states that don't have them do just fine. In fact empowering the police to pull people over for safety infractions leads to greater drunk driving arrests, etc. Not only would the costs of the program disappear, it would trickle into saving in other departments (like faster DMV lines). This is a problem the legislators came up with and they can make it go away. But they won't, instead they will find some use tax to add to this entirely useless program (WARNING: ADDING A USE TAX GROWS THE BUREAUCRACY) instead of finding and eliminating useless inefficiencies.
The only way to grow the union base is to grow the taxing and spending. It's a one-way road (full of pot holes) because nobody will vote them out.
The only way to cut costs is to cut unnecessary services/requirements. For example, why don't they get rid of the entire vehicle inspection program? The states that don't have them do just fine. In fact empowering the police to pull people over for safety infractions leads to greater drunk driving arrests, etc. Not only would the costs of the program disappear, it would trickle into saving in other departments (like faster DMV lines). This is a problem the legislators came up with and they can make it go away. But they won't, instead they will find some use tax to add to this entirely useless program (WARNING: ADDING A USE TAX GROWS THE BUREAUCRACY) instead of finding and eliminating useless inefficiencies.
The only way to grow the union base is to grow the taxing and spending. It's a one-way road (full of pot holes) because nobody will vote them out.