I’m not using strict political definitions so my word choice maybe could have been better.

We’re choking on the size of the bureaucracy in government but also in the corporate bureaucracy that exists due to the government bureaucracy that constantly creates new rules without fixing old ones.

The choking is the reduction of abundance (wealth) caused by bureaucratic make-work which reduces actual productivity.

The choking results in more rules that ultimately defend the wealth streams of the wealthy at the expense of those at the bottom of the economic ladder whose rungs are removed by the new rules.