“These fees are a glaring example of the government imposing a higher price on its customers while continuing to offer inefficient services.”
That was Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., co-author of a bipartisan immigration bill in the House. He was criticizing the Citizenship and Immigration Services for its inefficiency. The agency currently has a backlog of about a million immigration applications.
Though Gutierrez, being a Democrat, would never see the irony, his quote could apply to almost any agency of government, especially social-service agencies whose existence is assured by increased dependency on the part of the population, citizen or not.
