by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
How invariably officialism becomes corrupt every one knows. Exposed to no such antiseptic as free competition—not dependent for existence, as private unendowed organizations are, on the maintenance of a vigorous vitality; all law-made agencies fall into an inert,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
The unadaptiveness of officialism is another of its vices. Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies; unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewithal to satisfy a sudden demand; unlike the railway-company which doubles...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
A further characteristic of officialism is its extravagance. In its chief departments … it employs far more officers than are needed, and pays some of the useless ones exorbitantly … These public agencies are subject to no such influence as that which obliges private...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
Officialism is stupid. Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the...
