by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
It can be very frustrating to work at the Cato Institute and fight for small government. Consider what’s happened the past couple of days. Congressman Paul Ryan introduces a budget and I dig through the numbers with a sense of disappointment because government...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 13, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Sigh. Even when they’re sort of doing the right thing, Republicans are incapable of using the right argument. Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, has unveiled his proposed budget and he and other Republicans are bragging that the plan will balance the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
As part of my “Question of the Week” series, I had to decide which department of the federal government was most deserving of abolition. With a target-rich environment of waste, fraud, and abuse in Washington, that wasn’t an easy question to answer. But I decided to...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I believe in the First Amendment, so I would never support legislation to restrict political speech or curtail the ability of people to petition the government. That being said, I despise the corrupt Washington game of obtaining unearned wealth thanks to the sleazy...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When I last checked, Henry Payne was winning the bronze medal in the contest to identify the best political cartoonist. You can see why by checking out this cartoon about Washington’s reaction to sequestration, which (gasp!) slightly slows the growth of the federal...
