[galieos_ghost]

Anywhere power is consolidated is going to be targeted for corrupt purposes. Around 50 people on the Congressional budget committees are effectively in charge of trillions of dollars of spending by the federal government, making it easy to bribe and get in your pork spending. Most startups would be far better off making a few donations to some politicians and getting fat government contracts rather than making a great product.

Just look at Amazon and their billion dollar federal cloud contracts. Politicians sell themselves cheap, the ROI is fantastic, probably the best growth hack out there.

Logical conclusion is to limit the size and power of the government to limit consolidation of power and thus make corruption less worthwhile/viable. The founding fathers understood this and that's why they essentially limited the federal government to only managing national defense and left the rest to the states, if you didn't like what your state was doing you could vote with your feet.