Obvious to everybody–except politicians and bureaucrats:

‘Red tape and too many taxes stifle productivity
…..Unfortunately, this government does not understand this. It believes in big government. It believes government knows better than business and individuals how best to conduct their affairs. Labor sees business as the enemy, which can’t be trusted to deliver services and out of which every last drop of tax must be squeezed….’
They don’t give a stuff about productivity, just so long as there’s enough money to fund a vast herd of useless bureaucrats. Like cockroaches after a nuclear holocaust, the bureaucrats and politicians will survive regardless of the number of businesses they drive to the wall.