by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
A new fiscal year starts October 1, and this is terrifying news for Republicans in Washington. They’re scared that if they don’t give Obama everything he wants, they’ll get “blamed” when the President vetoes annual spending bills and shuts down the government. If this...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I wrote back in June that I was relieved about a bureaucrat from the National Weather Service getting elected to the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame. I realize I was being jingoistic, but after selecting bureaucrats from France and India, I had been worried that foreigners...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Like Sisyphus pushing the rock up a hill, I keep trying to convince my leftist friends that growth is the best way to help the poor. I routinely share new evidence and provide real-world data in hopes that they will realize that good results are more important than...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending
I’m not a huge fan of government bureaucrats. But not because they’re bad people. Yes, there are repugnant hacks in the civil service like Lois Lerner, but most bureaucrats I’ve met are good people. My objection is that they work for departments that shouldn’t exist...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
What’s the greatest economic tragedy in modern history? The obvious answer is communism, which produced tens of millions of needless deaths and untold misery for ordinary people. Just compare living standards in North Korea and South Korea, or Chile and Cuba. But if...
