I believe we need a complete turnaround in our politics. We need a government that advances the middle class, strengthens industry, and keeps state spending under control. However, above all, we need politicians in the country who can actually be taken seriously on the global political stage

I don't think the amount of state is the problem. the issue is that it is organized and run inefficiently. All (almost) regulation is meant well but it needs to be organized efficiently and digital.

Europe tries to safe the world from just inside Europe! CSRD, supply chain compliance and so on need to have a global basis before establishing guidelines for just European companies. That only helps those who don't have to take any actions. And they sit outside of Europe.

Germany‘s position in the IMD Global Competitiveness Report has been declining for years and years. Now 24 out of 75 countries. Embarrassing for the fourth largest economy. One of the criteria is government efficiency. The benchmark is right across the Southern border.

Could the current economic liberalization policy in Argentina be an example or a part of the solution for the EU? Could it work here?

Elon Musk has a track record

We're at the point we're pretty much nothing new gets done anymore. We don't believe we can complete it. No new train stations, metros or bridges, no ambitious projects for the common good, no meaningful changes to systems that are obviously failing us (e.g. retirement scheme). It has gotten too complex. We are wrapped tightly in hundreds of layers of regulation. We've regulated our societies to a halt.

The state should refocus on its core, legitimizing functions: ensuring internal and external security, providing adequate public services and education, supplying infrastructure, and creating a neutral regulatory framework for the private sector, including legal certainty. If this succeeds, trust in institutions and economic performance will grow again.

For starters, to many layers between Fed and local level doing pretty much the same thing. Block grants; dismiss all Fed social workers and replace 20% of them with auditors,

Circa three million employees, fewer than one half in uniform. Perhaps it eluded me but a lot of tail-to-tooth.

Too many non-mission specific offices in every agency, and not just DEI. “Compliance” officers biggest offenders.

I could go on.

We shall trust the government (with our vote, with money, with our future!
Why does the government not trust people, companies and farmers with anything including the matters which do NOT matter and the ones which should be the problem of responsible people themselves?

The difficult question is how to make this attractive to those who govern. As in so many cases, the knowledge is there, and the opinion on it is shared, however, we need to find convincing answers how to do it in a way that those who want to be reelected will support the execution.

It's best to start with the information and reporting requirements. Hand on heart - who reads the sustainability reports of other companies?

We need less and more efficient state, more liberalization of non core state subjects

An absolut must. See Lieferantenkettengesetz…..and EU rules. we need this on EU Level as well.