by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
It’s unfortunate that Senator Tom Coburn is retiring. He hasn’t been perfect, but nobody can question is commitment to limited government. He’s been a rare voice in Washington against wasteful spending. And he’s going out with a bang, having just released the 2014...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The International Monetary Fund isn’t my least-favorite international bureaucracy. That special honor belongs to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, largely because of its efforts to undermine tax competition and protect the interests of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Health Care
Years ago, I shared a very funny poster that suggests that more government is hardly ever the right answer to any question. Yet in Washington, the standard response to any screwup by government is to make government even bigger. Sort of Mitchell’s Law on steroids. And...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute looks at the topic of infrastructure spending and I’m left with mixed feelings. Some of what he writes is very good. Yes, the claims of an “infrastructure crisis” by President Obama, many liberals…are exaggerated....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Welfare and Entitlements
Since I primarily work on fiscal policy, I normally look at the budgetary impact of entitlement programs. And the numbers are very grim. But I’m also an economist, so I periodically comment on how government intervention undermines the efficient functioning of...
