1. Not enough of the electorate will consistently understand that welfare benefits can be too high and generous.
2. The government is, in many ways, strong and capable of making a big difference. It is therefore difficult for people to think of government action as potentially dangerous and disruptive.
3. Government-owned organisations – such as schools and hospitals – are not strongly and automatically encouraged to think of what the consumer wants (whereas private companies have to concentrate on the consumer, otherwise they go bust).
4. All organisations tend to think of what suits them and their employees. In government organisations, there is no life-or-death competition to counter this. They therefore become self-indulgent and wasteful.