>I'm talking about overbearing regulation and the bureaucracies which spawn and grow from their creation. The lessening of the power of the State via decreased regulatory control and greatly reduced bureaucracies would increase the effectiveness of the judiciary as there would be dramatically less code for the judges to be familiar with.
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>I'm not disagreeing, but can you name a department or area where this would apply?

I'm not sure what you're asking here? Which departments to contract or eliminate altogether? I consider it obvious that to reduce the State's Code means less regulation, law and precedent for the judiciary to work through.

>Underfunding of the judiciary, law enforcement and public works is a direct result of over funding social programs and bloated bureaucracies.
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>Can you substantiate this?

Again, I consider this obvious. Money wasted on ever-lengthening unemployment benefits and building frog tunnels is money the State does not have to spend on roads or education. I know I say it a lot, but look to California. Our education spending is a mandated percentage of the budget established via a vote of the citizenry, yet those in power are tapping into it anyhow. Law? What law? Our social spending is completely out of hand. In addition because of our entrenched gerryrigged electoral map we're stuck with a fully bought and paid for legislature which over the years has established public employee contracts and social programs which have bankrupted the State. No worries, we just continue the annual tradition of missing the State Constitutionally mandated deadline for a balanced budget and borrow ourselves into oblivion, forcing us to pay ever increasing rates on the money we continue to borrow. Kick the can down the road...the next generation will pay for it. If you want to see what excessive spending on a national level looks like, look no further than the 8th largest economy in the world with her B credit rating. WooHoo! Only 2 levels to go until junk.

>That being said, my first question would be why is "big pharma" making the vaccine in Europe instead of the US? Might it have anything to do with the US having the highest corporate tax rate in the world?
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>It's more likely to be due to cost of production, location of existing facilities and capacity. You can't set up a vaccine production line overnight and you'd need a good capitalist ROI to justify it.

Why are the production costs higher here? Why weren't those production lines set up here before? Why are business' vacating this country? Why our the great liberals of Hollywood moving more and more production to Canada and Prague? You must see the correlation between taxation and business location.