Limited Government
Today I was filling out a scholarship application for Presidential Scholars, and noticed that the site is horribly designed. The post-submission screen flashes for about three seconds before switching back to the application status page; anything possibly useful/essential that could have been gleaned from that page is forever lost. Also, the essay prompts had a character count; unfortunately, using a line break is apparently equivalent to an infinite number of characters. And it’s not that the site couldn’t do it; for the main essay the formatting worked not perfectly, but better.
This brings me to my main point: government should be as limited as possible, and the more there is privatized, the better. Government is inherently inefficient, and has no market forces working upon it to force an increase in efficiency or the quality of product. Therefore, everything stagnates and is of mediocre quality, just like online application form for Presidential Scholars.