[F2468]

> If you assume everyone mismanages funds, you don't give them enough funds to really deliver value on, so they look mismanaged.

What?

>The rest of the world has relatively well functioning governments despite having quite a bit more responsibility.

Define well-functioning. By my definition, they are absolutely not.

[BrainInAJar]

Let me explain it to you in a simpler way. If you have a house, and your siding is rotting off, you ask everyone in the house to pitch in to fix the siding so the foundation doesn't start to get destroyed. But everyone in the house is a child that holds childish simplistic libertarian ideals and refuses to give you anything more than the bare minimum, so you side it with tarps instead of shingles, eventually the structure starts rotting.

[F2468]

Pitching in implies that it is voluntary. Government funding by taxation is not.

Calling something childish is not an argument.

Being underfunded is no excuse, they could be efficient and get the most out of the money they take (by force, don't forget my friend). If they were, then you can argue we should fund them further.

I'm still eagerly awaiting your definition of well-functioning and an explanation for how the "rest of the world" fall under that definition.