Yet adding layers appears to be in the DNA of bureaucracy; it is what bureaucracy does, according to Paul C. Light, who has spent years studying the phenomenon he calls the “thickening” of government.
Through Republican and Democratic administrations, in response to any kind of crisis or failure, in every field from education to national security, and often in the face of stark evidence that it will be counterproductive, the federal government has grown layers, said Dr. Light, a professor of public service at New York University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
That’s why we need to get rid of the Republicrats and put in some Libertarians!