by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
I’ve written about the government’s war on consumer-friendly light bulbs (and also similar attacks on working toilets and washing machines that actually clean), so I’m generally not surprised by bureaucratic nonsense. But even I’m shocked the federal government gave...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
The overwhelming fiscal policy challenge for America is entitlement programs, as I explain in this set of videos. To protect America from becoming another Greece, we need personal retirement accounts for Social Security. We need vouchers for Medicare. And we need to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
While I’m obviously not a fan of big government, I have mixed feelings about why the public sector is so blindly wasteful. Is it because politicians and bureaucrats are well-intentioned morons who accidentally do damage (as illustrated by this cartoon), or is it that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’ve written before about the importance of getting rid of the Department of Transportation, and I’ve also written about Republicans getting in bed with big government. So you can imagine how agitated I was to read this article about transportation spending at...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2012 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I was nauseated when Newt Gingrich did the infamous global warming ad with Nancy Pelosi. I was disgusted when he criticized Paul Ryan’s entitlement reforms. But I’m not sure what my reaction is to Newt’s latest brain fart. For lack of anything clever, let’s just say...
