Whenever anyone says its time to cut down the size of the government bureaucracy, the tax and spend crowd starts crowing on about how without all those bureaucrats, fewer people would have money to spend, and we'd fall into a recession, or make the current recession worse.

But if tax dollars are taken from taxpayers to support bureaucrats who exist solely to create demand, taxpayers get nothing in return for their tax dollars. It's true, bureaucrats spend money and that creates jobs, but for every job created by a bureaucrat, it is one less job created by a taxpayer. That's because taxpayers have less to spend. If the reason we have so many bureaucrats is so we have people with money to spend, the time has come to get rid of them.

Bureaucrats exists to provide services taxpayers value, not to get a salary to create demand in the market.

The money used to support bureaucrats is paid from taxpayers' pockets. Fewer bureaucrats means taxpayers will have more money on hand to pay for more of the goods and services they want.

That means increased demand, which will increase jobs for former bureaucrats in the productive sectors of the economy.

Former bureaucrats will become self-supporting, instead of being supported by taxpayers.

Production increases, and everyone is better off.

The income and purchasing power of taxpayers increases as the income and purchasing power of bureaucrats decreases, but we become much better off because demand increases for the things we want. Bureaucrats find employment producing the things we want.