That never-ending story

No doubt there will be those who still call for more government not less:

Prosecutors in Wuppertal said that around 200 police officers and 50 officials searched British army premises in the towns of Moenchengladbach, Elmpt, Paderborn and Herford. Eight local companies were also examined.

German authorities suspect that some 21 civilian British military employees may have taken bribe money in return for contracts for work such as renovating and supplying army buildings.

A statement from the Wuppertal prosecutors' office said that payments may have also been made to non-existent shell companies for fake contracts, "costing the British government millions of euros."

That last sentence should of course read, "costing the British tax-payer millions of euros." Still, the mind wanders. How many countless individuals trudged off to work, day in - day out, only to have their pay packet sponged, day in - day out, only to have their hard-earned income vanish down yet another governmental rat-hole?

Remind again why the British government needs evermore of an individual's hard-earned income? Should one penny more be given over to a government that cannot even manage what they currently take?