Even if you regard Trump as a Black Swan event and government and the people who run it as entirely good-hearted and well-intended, there is the problem, as Mill also wrote, that “every additional function undertaken by the government, is a fresh occupation imposed upon a body already overcharged with duties.” And he was writing in the 1840s, when taxes were less than 10 per cent of U.K. GDP, not verging on 40, and Britain had not yet become, as Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch describes it, “a welfare state with an economy attached.”