A major problem of the US is just corruption. If people went to jail for things like congressional insider trading, we’d solve a lot of these issues.
I agree, and that’s the case for dismantling as much of the federal government as possible - it is too big to work. Break up Apple, Google, Amazon, Washington DC.
It’s all trade offs - do you want everyone in your country to have a baseline education that can be relied on as a given but perhaps it suffers in its administration and effectiveness? Or are you OK with pockets of your country having tremendous quality of education and others having very poor quality, as an example.