Big Government is extremely wasteful. It's imposable not to be. All organizations become more wasteful as the grow. My company is very wasteful. In business, the way to reduce that waste, is to release authority at the top, to the lower level leads.
In government, it's the Fed releasing authority to the states, and states releasing authority to the counties, and so on. Our current Administration (and the last really) want to do the exact opposite. Spend as much money as they can, and bribe the states with it to release some of there authority to the feds. It's a recipe for disaster (and increased wasteful spending).







