[StandardFuture]

> The money actually going for care is pretty minimal.

That is literally the point.

Welfare = Welfare bureaucracy + Welfare Benefits

This is true of everything the government does. Government = bureaucracy + benefits, with a larger percentage going to support the bureaucracy than in any other organization or context.

And even if you increase money for benefits, the same (or sometimes larger percentage) goes to supporting the bureaucracy of those benefits.

It's not hard.

[mnouquet]

That's a lie. The idea of Government was sold to the general population as "we'll make your lives better", not "we'll become that humongous monster you'll serve".

[StandardFuture]

HN rules: apply the most gracious interpretation to my comment.

> you'd see the vast mmajority of tax revenue is spent on welfare

That is the point from the prior comment I am supporting. I am emphasizing that this is true because of the inevitability of bureaucracy inside of the very notion of "government".

Government was never capable of efficient utilization of taxes for maximizing benefits to society. It can never promise that due to basic incentive structures and the mathematics of game-theory. Of course, politicians can lie about it (and many do all the time).

It can only promise an attempt and some degree of benefits provided.