All that is necessary is to create offices and to pay public functionaries.
In other words, their tactics consist in presenting as actual services things which are but hindrances; then the nation pays, not for being served, but for being subservient.

Governments assuming gigantic proportions end by absorbing half of all the revenues.

The people are astonished that while marvelous labor-saving inventions, destined to infinitely multiply productions, are ever increasing in number, they are obliged to toil on as painfully as ever, and remain as poor as before.
This happens because, while the government manifests so much ability, the people show so little.

Thus, when they are called upon to choose their agents, those who are to determine the sphere of, and compensation for, governmental action, whom do they choose?
The agents of the government.

They entrust the executive power with the determination of the limit of its activity and its requirements.