by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
The polls are not looking good for Donald Trump. Indeed, I suspect my most recent prediction for the 2016 race gives him too many states. With time running out, he now faces pressure to come up with some new idea or a new narrative to change the likely outcome. Which...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
My main problem with bureaucrats is that there are too many of them (because government is too big) and that they are paid too much (almost twice the level of compensation as workers in the private sector). But even if the government was the proper size (America’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, States
America’s main long-run retirement challenge is our pay-as-you-go Social Security system, which was created back when everyone assumed we would always have a “population pyramid,” meaning relatively few retirees and lots of workers. But as longevity has increased and...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 17, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
A few years ago, I put together an amusing collection of stories comparing truly bizarre examples of political correctness and bureaucratic idiocy in the United States and the United Kingdom. I was especially impressed (in a you-must-be-joking fashion) that a British...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
Since it’s very likely that Hillary Clinton will be our next President, I’m mentally preparing myself for upcoming fights over her agenda of bigger government and class warfare. But the silver lining to this dark cloud is that I don’t think I’ll be distracted by also...
