You asked for an example of another government doing better. I gave you a recent one by California's government. Japan is perhaps the best one, but many other countries do trains a lot better than California despite all the hype and money they put in it's mediocre result. It was a very open question that your follow up questions are trying to pivot to something else.
> And, most of the bad things you are bringing up are happening all throughout the US.
Please read my post again. Being below average in K-12 among the states, despite the high taxes and land values, is not happening all throughout the US.
> Just feels too convenient to say that the tech industry is in spite of the government, but the failures are because of it.
Please read what I wrote carefully above, I did not agree with that fully. My argument was more of the recent CA govt has not been addressing it's problems and the tech industry's success was due to good decisions in the past (and the weather). The recent CA govt actions has been poor. Calling the recent tech boom in spite of government policies is something I can somewhat agree with.