by Dan Mitchell | Apr 10, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Over the past few weeks, I’ve shared headlines and tweets to illustrate how bureaucratic inefficiency and incompetence have hindered an effective response to the coronavirus. Time to beat that dead horse one more time. But not just for the sake of mocking the clowns...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 8, 2020 | Blogs, Health Care
Reviewing public policy and the coronavirus, I’ve mostly focused on the manifest failures of Washington bureaucracies. But let’s not overlook the politicized incompetence of the World Health Organization, a U.N.-connected bureaucracy that ostensibly exists to prevent...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
As explained in this short video, a spending cap limits how fast a government’s budget can grow each year. That’s a very sensible approach, sort of like having a speed limit in a school zone, and even left-leaning international bureaucracies have concluded it’s the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
The current crisis teaches us that excessive regulation and bureaucratic sloth can have deadly consequences. Here’s John Stossel’s video with another lesson, explaining that we need more capitalism rather than more government. This seems like a no-brainer, especially...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2020 | Blogs, Health Care
Near the beginning of the croronavirus crisis, I observed that “government-run health systems have not done a good job” of dealing with the pandemic. And I’ve repeatedly noted the failure of government bureaucracies to respond effectively in the United States. Is...
