Step 1: Start giving contracts to buddies that will become part of your oligarchy and start making them rich with government funds.
Step 2: Start hiring their crew members to government positions to later aid them in acquiring licenses for industries they want to monopolize.
Step 3: Pass some regulation that your buddies can easily comply with but nearly impossible for everyone else to comply with.
Result is a bloated government that spends a ton of money to seemingly achieve nothing, except serve your oligarchy.
Now blame the poor and welfare state. So you can keep more of the taxes.
Deregulate so your buddies who are now running monopolies can spend less.
Give more contracts to new buddies to share the spoils from aforementioned taxes you kept more of.
So on, so forth.
Oh, remember to keep telling the public about communism and how big governments are bloated and point at the one you designed as evidence that it’s inevitable.
Step 2: Start hiring their crew members to government positions to later aid them in acquiring licenses for industries they want to monopolize.
Step 3: Pass some regulation that your buddies can easily comply with but nearly impossible for everyone else to comply with.
Result is a bloated government that spends a ton of money to seemingly achieve nothing, except serve your oligarchy.
Now blame the poor and welfare state. So you can keep more of the taxes.
Deregulate so your buddies who are now running monopolies can spend less.
Give more contracts to new buddies to share the spoils from aforementioned taxes you kept more of.
So on, so forth.
Oh, remember to keep telling the public about communism and how big governments are bloated and point at the one you designed as evidence that it’s inevitable.