Elon Musk discussed the idea of a government efficiency commission w/ Donald Trump

In Texas, every government agency (except those specified in the state Constitution) are reviewed every 12 years by the Sunset Commission, and are either renewed, reorganized, or abolished.

I have long advocated sunset laws at the federal level, especially for the IRS.

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are reviewed every 12 years by the Sunset Commission, and are either renewed, reorganized, or abolished.

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Should be every 12 months

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but it basically incentivized bureaucrats monetarily by giving them a percentage of what money they saved the public through efficiency and cost cutting.

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So politicians would be getting a salary at taxpayer's expense plus getting a percentage on how much they save taxpayers through cost cutting something that they are already getting paid a salary for? Yeah, I'm not sure that's the answer of an honest politician seeing as to how he gets richer for doing something he's already geting paid for.

If politicians want to save the taxpayers money let them work for free and then get a percentage on how much they save us with wiser spending of our hard earned money.

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Elon Musk discussed the idea of a government efficiency commission w/ Donald Trump

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its a better idea than whats going on now. It may also expose some of the crookedness going on.

I would rather create incentives to do good than do bad and have bags dished out by lobbyist and others.

SpaceX revealed just how badly NASA has been run for the last 40 years.
The shuttle program was a disaster, with two lost crews and the promise of 'reusability' being a joke as the cost of each flight was still over a billion.

Then there was the era without even the capability of manned spaceflight. Forced to hitch a ride up on Soyuz to get to space. Forced to buy Russian made engines (RD180) for our own rockets because they are so inept. Still willing to spend the annual ~20 billion budget with very little to show for it.

Now all they can do is slap some 40 year old tech together and call it Artemis and still charge billions per launch. Old RS25 engines that each cost several times was a complete Falcon 9 mission costs. Zero reusability, enormous cost and weak objectives.

I don't trust Musk at all. I don't trust anyone who came up through finance. But the man seems to have genius in multiple disciplines not least of which is manufacturing technology. He's able to reduce costs orders of magnitude which should be impossible. While Shuttle took years to build he wants to build one Starship per day. He's already launched 6000 starlink sats. That was impossible when comsats were hundreds of millions each.

Of course that bloat and inefficiency is everywhere in government, with millions of pigs at the trough. Nobody wants to get exposed like NASA has been exposed, especially the MIC. He's going to have enemies, some of them very powerful.

If we can get to mars and Terraform it, maybe it can be a truly free planted. We might be able to fight off the Chinese and the Feds from over there.

I would heed the call of duty if I had the chance to be on that committee.

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government efficiency

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THIS ^^^ Is an oxymoron.

Trump and Musk coordinating to create a small team that could shrink all the other teams, in my opinion, would be exemplary. I'd actually trust someone like Musk to trim a LOT of redundant fat and spending.