Yep it is obvious. So why do so many people continue to vote for government solutions they ought to know won’t work? Simple: they would rather have crappy solutions for free than have to pay for anything. Want to see our 40% of GDP government shrink? Make everyone pay equally for it. That’s $6.8 trillion divided by 325 million people. Or $20k per head / $80k for a family of four. That should make it clear what the real purpose of government has become: redistributing wealth.